Fortran for Scientific Computing

Photo of scientists participating in a training course in HLRS's Ruehle Saal
Sep 17: Due to corona virus, we'll provide this course as an ONLINE course (using Zoom).

This course is dedicated to scientists and students to learn (sequential) programming with Fortran of scientific applications. The course teaches newest Fortran standards. Hands-on sessions will allow users to immediately test and understand the language constructs. This workshop provides scientific training in Computational Science, and in addition, the scientific exchange of the participants among themselves.

(This course has the same content as the course offered in spring.)

Veranstaltungsort

Online course
Organizer: HLRS, University of Stuttgart, Germany

Veranstaltungsbeginn

07. Dez 2020
08:30

Verstaltungsende

11. Dez 2020
15:30

Sprache

Deutsch

Einstiegslevel

Basis

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Program

Topics to be covered in this course include:
  • Fortran syntax overview
    • Basics - Program units - Dynamic data - IO
  • Obsolete features of Fortran
  • Fortran intrinsics
  • Multiple source files
  • Optimisation of single processor performance
  • Features of Fortran 2003, 2008 and 2018
  • Coarray Fortran
  • Compilers for Fortran and their usage

A detailed program can be found here (PDF) (CET time, preliminary).

Prerequisites and content levels

Prerequisites:
  • Familiarity with Linux and Linux editors is recommended.
  • Basics/principles of programming (in any language).
  • Basic mathematics (integration and differentiation)
Content levels:
  • Basic: 13 hours
  • Intermediate: 13 hours
  • Advanced: 7 hours

Learn more about course curricula and content levels.

 

Teachers

Uwe Küster, Dr.-Ing. Ralf Schneider (Head, Department of Numerical Libraries, HLRS) and Dmitry Khabi

Course Material

All course material and the details to access the online course will be provided to the registered and accepted attendees only.
For course participants only: Link to the exercises (password protected).

Literature and Textbooks

Participants will receive a free copy of the slides.
Recommended book: Michael Metcalf, John Reid, Malcom Cohen, "Modern Fortran explained".

Exercises on your Computer

Please be aware that you need gfortran on your computer:

  • On your Linux machine, Fortran is installed as part of gcc
  • To install gfortran on your Windows-computer, please go to the URL
    http://www.equation.com/servlet/equation.cmd?fa=fortran
    and download the latest weekly snapshot as a self-extracting file in the 32-bit or the 64-bit version.
    The name is (e.g., in Dec. 2020) "gcc-10-20200405-64.exe" < ftp://ftp.equation.com/gcc/gcc-10-20200405-64.exe >
    The name and version may change every few days.
    Download this file and execute it. You might need administrator privileges. After finishing the installation, please open a "cmd" window. In the window type in:
       gfortran -v
    You should see as last line
       gfortran version <version number> <some additional data>

Deadline

for registration is November 22, 2020 (extended deadline).
Late registrations after the deadline are still possible but maybe with reduced quality of the handouts.

Fee

Students without Diploma/Master: 40 EUR
Students with Diploma/Master (PhD students) at German universities: 90 EUR
Members of German universities and public research institutes: 90 EUR
Members of universities and public research institutes within EU or PRACE member countries: 180 EUR.
Members of other universities and public research institutes: 360 EUR
Others: 960 EUR

Our course fees include coffee breaks (in classroom courses only).

Contact

Rolf Rabenseifner, phone 0711 685 65530, rabenseifner@hlrs.de
Lorenzo Zanon, phone 0711 685 63824, zanon(at)hlrs.de