Fortran is dead - Long live Fortran!

Torsten Hoefler's random access spontaneous talk given at the 42nd anniversary Salishan Conference on High-Speed Computing in 2023. Discusses how to lift Fortran code to a data-centric representation to optimize it for accelerator devices. Work led by Alexandru Calotoiu in SPCL.

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Fortran is still used today, particularly in scientific, engineering, and high-performance computing applications where numerical computation and performance are critical. While newer languages like Python and Julia have gained popularity for general-purpose programming and rapid prototyping, Fortran remains widely used in fields such as computational physics, climate modeling, computational chemistry, and finite element analysis

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TIOBE Index for May 2024: Fortran in the top 10

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My friend claimed that he can program in Fortran everything. How it is true! I also converted many original weather model calculations from Algol to Fortran. They work great.