Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum Stuttgart: Fortran for Scientific Computing

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.

Instructors

Uwe Küster and Ralf Schneider (Head, Department of Numerical Libraries, HLRS)

Agenda

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
Compilers for Fortran and their usage

A detailed program will be provided. For the time being you can find here (PDF) the program from last year (CET time).

Handout

Each participant will get a pdf of the slides.

Before the course starts

Please install the Fortran compiler on your local machine and get access to the Fortran 2018 Standard as a PDF document by following the instructions in this document.

Registration information

Register via the button at the top of this page.
We encourage you to register to the waiting list if the course is full. Places might become available.

Fees

Students without master’s degree or equivalent: 40 Euro
PhD students or employees at a German university or public research institute: 90 Euro
PhD students or employees at a university or public research institute in an EU, EU-associated or PRACE country other than Germany: 180 Euro
PhD students or employees at a university or public research institute outside of EU, EU-associated or PRACE countries: 360 Euro
Other participants, e.g., from industry, other public service providers, or government: 960 Euro

Link to the EU and EU-associated (Horizon Europe), and PRACE countries.

Our course fees include coffee breaks (in classroom courses only).
The fee only applies if your application is accepted. In that case you will receive an invoice.

Contact

Lucienne Dettki phone 0711 685 63894, dettki(at)hlrs.de
Lorenzo Zanon phone 0711 685 63824, zanon(at)hlrs.de

PRACE PATC and bwHPC

HLRS is part of the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS), which is one of the six PRACE Advanced Training Centres (PATCs) that started in Feb. 2012.

HLRS is also member of the Baden-Württemberg initiative bwHPC.

This course is also provided within the framework of the bwHPC training program. This course is not part of the PATC curriculum and is not sponsored by the PATC program.

Further courses

See the training overview and the Supercomputing Academy pages.