26–28 Mar 2019
CSC - IT Center for Science
Europe/Helsinki timezone

Description

This course covers the modern features of the Fortran programming language. Topics include object-oriented features, language interoperability and several other enhancements included in Fortran 2008 standard. In addition, a way to express distributed memory parallelism via Fortran coarrays will be discussed in detail.

The course provides an overview on all relevant features of Fortran beyond the 95 standard. You will also be able to write parallel programs using the Fortran coarrays concept.

Learning outcome

The course provides an overview on all the relevant features of Fortran beyond the 95 standard. You also will be able to write parallel programs using the Fortran coarrays concept.

Prerequisites

Solid knowledge of Fortran 95/2003. The concepts discussed in the PATC introduction course Fortran Programming for Scientific Computing is the minimum. Knowledge on C will also be needed for understanding the topics on the language interoperability. Familiarity with parallel programming with message-passing interface (MPI) standard will be assumed when discussing the Fortran coarrays. In addition, some familiarity with object-oriented programming concepts will be assumed.

Agenda

Day 1: Tuesday, March 26

  • 09.00-09.15  Course introduction
  • 09.15-10.00  Useful new features beyond F95
  • 10.00-10.15  Coffee break
  • 10.15-11.00  Advanced topics in Fortran I/O
  • 11.00-11.45  Exercises
  • 11.45-12:00  Working with Fortran compilers
  • 12.00-13.00  Lunch break
  • 13.00-14.00  Interoperability with C
  • 14.00-14.45  Exercises
  • 14.45-15.00  Coffee break
  • 15.00-16.00  Exercises

Day 2: Wednesday, March 27

  • 09.00-09.45  Introduction to Fortran coarrays
  • 09.45-10.00  Coffee break
  • 10.00-11.15  Exercises
  • 11.15-12.00  More coarray features
  • 12.00-13.00  Lunch break
  • 13.00-14.00  Exercises
  • 14.00-14.45  Advanced topics in coarrays
  • 14.45-15.00  Coffee break
  • 15.00-16.00  Exercises

Day 3: Thursday, March 28

  • 09.00-10.00  Additional capabilities of Fortran types, procedure pointers
  • 10.00-10.15  Coffee break
  • 10.15-11.00  Exercises
  • 11.00-12.00  Type extensions, type-bound procedures
  • 12.00-13.00  Lunch break
  • 13.00-14.00  Exercises
  • 14.00-14.45  More complex data structures with Fortran
  • 14.45-15.00  Coffee break
  • 15.00-16.00  Exercises

Lecturers: 

Sami Ilvonen (CSC), Peter Råback (CSC)

Language:   English
Price:          Free of charge

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Europe/Helsinki
CSC - IT Center for Science
CSC Training room Dogmi, 1st floor
LIfe Science Center, Keilaranta 14, Espoo, Finland

How to reach us

CSC is located in Keilaniemi, Espoo, 10 km west of the Helsinki City Center. Detailed information is available here.

Accommodation

We recommend choosing a few hotels that are most close to our premises. The nearest hotel is Radisson Blu Espoo, which is in a walking distance (only 500 m) from CSC. Another hotel close to the venue (1,8 km) is Sokos Hotel Tapiola Garden. Other hotels are located in Helsinki' downtown with a frequent and fast metro connection to Keilaniemi. Please note, that there is no special rates for the participants at any hotels.

If you have any questions, please click on the support link on the left to send an e-mail to the local organizers.