"This tutorial will present several features that the draft Fortran 2015 standard introduces to meet challenges that are expected to dominate massively parallel programming in the coming exascale era.

Although the first compiler for general-purpose, imperative programming language would not be delivered for three more years, September 20, 1954 marked the first run of a Fortran (Formula Translating) ...

Good-bye Fortran, hello Fortress? Server maker seeks open-source help building alternative to decades-old programming language.

Newer versions were released and standardized and are known as Fortran 2003 and Fortran 2008. Work is being completed on Fortran 2015. Raw computer performance on large scale systems is still measured ...

In some large systems, Fortran code can be responsible for 80-100% of the computation. It’s also incredibly easy to learn, as you’ll see with this short introduction to Fortran programming.

FORTRAN (short for Formula Translation) is the world’s first high-level procedural programming language, created at IBM in the 1950s. It revolutionized coding by making it accessible to scientists and ...

At a Halloween party we threw for MIT students this weekend, the subject of Fortran came up (yeah, I know, nerdy stuff) which pretty much drew blank looks from the more junior witches and warlocks.