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Scientific Programming (journal) Dedicates Special Issue to Fortran

Beliavsky

2007-06-25, 10:07 pm

I emailed the address listed at the end, and I was given permission to
download the articles from the issue in PDF format.

http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/1625096.html

Scientific Programming Dedicates Special Issue to Fortran
AMSTERDAM, June 20 -- The programming language Fortran celebrates its
50th anniversary this year. To mark this occasion, a special issue of
Scientific Programming on the role of Fortran in the scientific
programming discipline is being published by IOS Press this month. The
issue is dedicated to Fortran creator John Backus and Ken Kennedy,
pioneer of Fortran compiler optimization and parallelization. Both
highly esteemed scientists died this year.

The first issue of the 15th volume of Scientific Programming is
entitled 'Fortran programming language and Scientific Programming: 50
years of mutual growth.' Editor-in-Chief Boleslaw Szymanski: "Over
half of the century of its existence, the evolving Fortran has been
the traditional and major language for scientific programming and it
has played a significant role in the research on programming languages
and compilers for scientific computing."

The language was designed by John Backus and his colleagues at IBM
with the goal to reduce the cost of programming scientific
applications by providing an 'automatic programming system' to replace
assembly language with a notation closer to the scientific programming
domain. Although the first specification of the Fortran language was
released in 1956, IBM delivered its first compiler for the computer,
IBM model 704, in 1957, hence this year marks the 50th anniversary of
the introduction of Fortran to users.

"Fortran Programming Language and Scientific Programming: 50 Years of
Mutual Growth" is a special issue of the IOS Press journal Scientific
Programming (Volume 15, Number 1 (2007)).

Contents

Introduction: Fortran programming language and Scientific Programming:
50 Years of mutual growth/ B.K. Szymanski

Scientific programming in Fortran/ W. Van Snyder

Co-arrays in the next Fortran Standard/ J. Reid and R.W. Numrich

The transition and adoption to modern programming concepts for
scientific computing in Fortran/ C.D. Norton, V.K. Decyk, B.K.
Szymanski and H. Gardner

>From FORTRAN 77 to locality-aware high productivity languages for
petascale computing/ H.P. Zima

Book Review: TSP(SM) Coaching Development Teams (SEI Series in
Software Engineering), by Watts S. Humphrey

Full text of the articles mentioned above is available upon request.
Contact a.engelen at iospress.nl

Rich Townsend

2007-06-25, 10:07 pm

This looks interesting -- thanks!

Beliavsky wrote:
> I emailed the address listed at the end, and I was given permission to
> download the articles from the issue in PDF format.
>
> http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/1625096.html
>
> Scientific Programming Dedicates Special Issue to Fortran
> AMSTERDAM, June 20 -- The programming language Fortran celebrates its
> 50th anniversary this year. To mark this occasion, a special issue of
> Scientific Programming on the role of Fortran in the scientific
> programming discipline is being published by IOS Press this month. The
> issue is dedicated to Fortran creator John Backus and Ken Kennedy,
> pioneer of Fortran compiler optimization and parallelization. Both
> highly esteemed scientists died this year.
>
> The first issue of the 15th volume of Scientific Programming is
> entitled 'Fortran programming language and Scientific Programming: 50
> years of mutual growth.' Editor-in-Chief Boleslaw Szymanski: "Over
> half of the century of its existence, the evolving Fortran has been
> the traditional and major language for scientific programming and it
> has played a significant role in the research on programming languages
> and compilers for scientific computing."
>
> The language was designed by John Backus and his colleagues at IBM
> with the goal to reduce the cost of programming scientific
> applications by providing an 'automatic programming system' to replace
> assembly language with a notation closer to the scientific programming
> domain. Although the first specification of the Fortran language was
> released in 1956, IBM delivered its first compiler for the computer,
> IBM model 704, in 1957, hence this year marks the 50th anniversary of
> the introduction of Fortran to users.
>
> "Fortran Programming Language and Scientific Programming: 50 Years of
> Mutual Growth" is a special issue of the IOS Press journal Scientific
> Programming (Volume 15, Number 1 (2007)).
>
> Contents
>
> Introduction: Fortran programming language and Scientific Programming:
> 50 Years of mutual growth/ B.K. Szymanski
>
> Scientific programming in Fortran/ W. Van Snyder
>
> Co-arrays in the next Fortran Standard/ J. Reid and R.W. Numrich
>
> The transition and adoption to modern programming concepts for
> scientific computing in Fortran/ C.D. Norton, V.K. Decyk, B.K.
> Szymanski and H. Gardner
>
> petascale computing/ H.P. Zima
>
> Book Review: TSP(SM) Coaching Development Teams (SEI Series in
> Software Engineering), by Watts S. Humphrey
>
> Full text of the articles mentioned above is available upon request.
> Contact a.engelen at iospress.nl
>

Arjen Markus

2007-06-26, 8:06 am

On 25 jun, 20:33, Rich Townsend <r...@barVOIDtol.udel.edu> wrote:
> This looks interesting -- thanks!
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Indeed, this _is_ interesting!

Regards,

Arjen

Fly Away

2007-06-28, 7:08 pm

On Jun 27, 6:53 am, Michael Prager <Mike.Prager.ind...@noaa.gov>
wrote:
> Beliavsky <beliav...@aol.com> wrote:
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> You live a charmed life. I emailed & was told I could buy a
> copy.
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I've read the papers and found very them barely useful, except maybe
the one on co-arrays, but that information could be found elsewhere.
Fortunately, I didn't have to pay.

Victor.

Michael Prager

2007-06-29, 7:06 pm

Fly Away <victor.prosolin@gmail.com> wrote:

> I've read the papers and found very them barely useful, except maybe
> the one on co-arrays, but that information could be found elsewhere.
> Fortunately, I didn't have to pay.
>

Thanks for the report!

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robin

2007-06-29, 7:06 pm

"Beliavsky" <beliavsky@aol.com> wrote in message
news:1182795585.562045.15170@q69g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...

> Although the first specification of the Fortran language was
> released in 1956, IBM delivered its first compiler for the computer,
> IBM model 704, in 1957, hence this year marks the 50th anniversary of
> the introduction of Fortran to users.

In what month was that?

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