This course is offered in cooperation with NAG
This two day practical hands-on workshop is aimed at Fortran programmers who want to write modern code, or to modernize existing codes, to make it more readable and maintainable by encouraging good software engineering practices. This workshop will also present how to integrate tools and techniques for Fortran codes to help you develop sustainable software for your scientific and academic research particularly in a collaborative environment. Overall, the aim is to make you a better and more productive computational scientist by improving your applied computer science skills that are directly relevant to computational science.
Program
First day:
09:00 Registration
09:15 - 12:30 Lectures
14:00 - 18:00 Lectures and exercises
Second day:
09:00 - 12:30 Lectures
14:00 - 18:00 Lectures and exercises
Topics will include:
- Modern Fortran standards and how to write optimized and efficient Fortran;
- Overview of the new Fortran 2018 standard
- NetCDF and HDF5 scientific file formats for data sharing in Fortran;
- GNU Automake to automate the build process;
- pFUnit unit testing framework for testing Fortran codes;
- Fortran Documenter tool for Fortran code documentation;
- Git version control for collaborative code development;
- In-situ visualisation using PLplot in Fortran;
- IEEE Floating Point Exception Handling;
- Software verification and portability using the NAG Fortran Compiler;
- Fortran interoperability with C, Python and R;
- Introduction to parallelism for Fortran;
- Introduction to the NAG Fortran library.
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of Fortran (any standard)
Teacher
Wadud Miah from NAG
Supplementary material
All Prace training events are run in English and are free of charge for all participants, and all material will be provided.
Participants are expected to bring their own laptop. A WiFi connection will be provided (Eduroam is available). All practical sessions will be carried out through an SSH connection
For basic knowledge of Fortran, you may visit https://web.stanford.edu/class/me200c/tutorial_90/ or http://fortranwiki.org/fortran/show/Tutorials
For more information see https://www.nag.com/content/fortran-modernization-workshop
