Joe Wallwork marks seventy years since Fortran's 1957 debut: why the language still thrives in scientific computing, what the Fortran-lang community is building, and how modern Fortran fits high-performance and climate work.
Celebrating 70 years of Fortran
*Joe Wallwork, Institute of Computing for Climate Science, University of
Cambridge, jw2423@cam.ac.uk*
One month from today (15th October) marks seventy years since the
first Fortran manual
was published, making it an extremely well established programming
language for scientific computing.
Over Fortran’s seven decades of usage, it has supported critical infrastructure
and technological advances in a range of scientific fields such as nuclear
engineering, weather and climate forecasting, and materials science. Fortran
continues to be the go-to language in these domains and others.
The main workshop will be held from 14:30-18:15 in the museum conference suite
and will be followed by an evening drinks reception in the exhibition hall
(including a demonstration of the 1940’s experimental computer,
‘Baby’).
The workshop will take the form of a retrospective, with a keynote address from
Damian Rouson, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory looking back on how far
Fortran has come in the past 70 years, lightning talks about the current
exciting developments and community initiatives right now, and an open breakout
discussion looking forward to the next 70 years. There are opportunities to
submit lightning talks and posters, as well as to propose breakout discussion
topics.
This event is make possible by the generous support of our sponsors. These
include platinum sponsors AMD and
Dell Technologies, as well as bronze sponsors
CAKE, OpenMP, and
ICCS.
See the
event webpage
for all further details about the event, including the full programme and
instructions on how to submit lightning talks and posters.