To fill the void in Mac Fortran programmer tools, Nocturnal Aviation Software has announced FTranProjectBuilder, its Mac-native development environment and project manager, designed to speed up and ...

In this video from the GPU Technology Conference, Michael Wolfe from The Portland Group presents: OpenACC for Fortran Programmers. Learn how to program NVIDIA GPUs using Fortran with OpenACC ...

Back in the dawn of time, which is four decades ago in computer science and which was before technical computing went mainstream with the advent of Unix workstations and their beefy server cousins, ...

Advances in science and engineering still rely on Fortran more than any other language by many important measures. Surprised? You shouldn’t be, although many people who call themselves programmers ...

Today The Portland Group announced PGI Visual Fortran for Visual Studio 2010. “With this latest release of PVF, PGI Fortran compilers and tools for multi-core processors and GPUs are available through ...

PORTLAND, Ore., July 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — The Portland Group® (PGI®), a wholly-owned subsidiary of STMicroelectronics and the leading independent supplier ...

Fortran 90 made things more difficult for the compilers but the pointers contain more information than C or C++ pointers so the compilers can do more aggressive optimizations. There are also some ...

1956: Fortran, the first modern computer language, is shared with the coding community for the first time. Three years in the making, it would be refined in work that continues to this day. While this ...

Sun Microsystems took a new open-source step this week, enlisting the outside world's help in an attempt to create a brand-new programming language called Fortress. On Tuesday, the company quietly ...

Software isn't in a rut. In fact, its development has been so steady, we've come to expect continued progress (and therefore fail to appreciate it). Welcome to the 'endless value spiral.' William ...