Advanced Fortran Topics @ LRZ

Sep 9, 2019, 9:00 AM → Sep 13, 2019, 6:00 PM Europe/Berlin

LRZ Kursraum 2 H.U.010 (LRZ)

Overview

This course, partly a PRACE training event, 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 (PRACE 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 PRACE training event.

Lecture Notes and Materials