Advanced Fortran Topics @ LRZ

Sep 11, 2017, 9:00 AM → Sep 15, 2017, 6:00 PM CET

H.U.010 (tbc) (LRZ)

This course, partly a PRACE Advanced Training Center (PATC) course, is targeted at scientists who wish to extend their knowledge of Fortran to cover advanced features of the language.

Topics covered include:

Days 1-3:

• Best Practices
  • global objects and interfaces
  • abstract interfaces and the IMPORT statement
  • object based programming
• Object-Oriented Programming
  • type extension, polymorphism and inheritance
  • binding of procedures to types and objects
  • generic type-bound procedures
  • abstract types and deferred bindings
• IEEE features and floating point exceptions
• Interoperability with C
  • mixed language programming patterns
• Fortran 2003 I/O extensions

Days 4-5 (PATC course):

• OO Design Patterns: application of object-oriented programming
  • creation and destruction of objects
  • polymorphic objects and function arguments
  • interacting objects
  • dependency inversion: submodules and plugins
• Coarrays
  • PGAS concepts and coarray basics
  • dynamic entities
  • advanced synchronization
  • parallel programming patterns
  • recent enhancements: collectives, events, teams, atomic subroutines
  • performance aspects of coarray programming

To consolidate the lecture material, each day's approximately 4 hours of lecture are complemented by 3 hours of hands-on sessions. The last 2 days of the course are a PATC event. A social event (self-paid dinner) for participant and instructor networking is planned for the evening on Tuesday, September 12, 2017.

Lecture Notes and Materials

Slides Timetable_LRZ.pdf Timetable_PRACE.pdf