HLRS High Performance Computing Center 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)

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.

Content levels:

Basic: 13 hours
Intermediate: 13 hours
Advanced: 7 hours

Learn more about course curricula and content levels.

Instructors

Uwe Küster (former HLRS) 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. Please refer to the program of the course in May 2022 (CEST time).

Handout

Each participant will get a pdf of the slides and a link to the exercises (coming soon).

Recording of the 2014 course are available in the HLRS self-study materials.

Literature and Textbooks

Michael Metcalf, John Reid, Malcom Cohen: "Modern Fortran explained" (ISBN: 978-0-19-881189-3).

Registration information

Register via the button at the top of this page.

Registration closes on November 6, 2022.

Fees

Monday-Tuesday: This is an HLRS course with the following fees:

Students without master’s degree or equivalent at a German university: 30 EUR.
Students without master’s degree or equivalent at a university in an EU, EU-associated or PRACE country: 30 EUR.
PhD student or employee at a German university or public research institute: 60 EUR.
PhD student or employee at a university or public research institute in an EU, EU-associated or PRACE country other than Germany: 120 EUR.

Wednesday-Friday: For participants of the above categories, this course is sponsored by the PRACE PATC program, i.e., there are no course fees if you register only for Wednesday-Friday.

Performance aspects and advanced topics of scientific programming with Fortran are discussed throughout all chapters, i.e., on all days of this course. Therefore, it is strongly recommended to visit all days, even though only 3 days are sponsored by the PRACE PATC project (due to limited resources within this project).

For all other participants (Mo-Fri), this course is an HLRS course with the following fees:

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

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

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

Contact

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.

This course is a PATC course, see also the PRACE Training Portal and Events. For participants from public research institutions in PRACE countries, the course fee is sponsored through the PRACE PATC program.

HLRS is also member of the Baden-Württemberg initiative bwHPC. This course is also provided within the framework of the bwHPC training program.

Official course URLs

https://www.hlrs.de/training/2022/FTN3 and PRACE web page: https://events.prace-ri.eu/event/1407

Further courses

See the training overview and the Supercomputing Academy pages.

High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart

Fortran for Scientific Computing

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