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)

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, modules, procedures
- Dynamic data
- Input and Output
Fortran intrinsics
Obsolete features of Fortran
Multiple source files
Compilers for Fortran and their usage
Optimization of single processor performance
Features of Fortran 2003, 2008 and 2018

All times CET. Please find the program of the course here.

Handout

Registered participants will get a pdf of the slides and a link to the exercises.

Recording of the 2014 course are available for all 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.
We encourage you to register to the waiting list if the course is full. Places might become available.

Registration closes on June 16, 2023 (extended registration phase).

Late registrations after the registration phase are still possible according to the course capacity.

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).

Lunch breaks

A nearby canteen is opened and we plan to have lunch there. Further two other near possibilities for lunch are on all days:

A food truck from 11:00-14:00, see "Allmandring 35" at https://www.uni-stuttgart.de/universitaet/aktuelles/meldungen/Food-Trucks-am-Campus-Vaihingen/, approximately 300 m from HLRS,
Bakery Sehne, near bus stop "Im Lauchhau", approximately 400 m from HLRS.

We will update this information if opening times etc. change and inform you more precisely before the course starts.

Contact

Lucienne Dettki phone 0711 685 63894, dettki(at)hlrs.de
training@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 and training team

See the training overview and the Supercomputing Academy pages.
See also information about the HLRS training department and staff.

Fortran for Scientific Computing

Location