Top Supercomputer Nearly Doubles in Speed Nov 18, 2009
Their scores are based on a benchmark called Linpack, a collection of Fortran subroutines that analyze and solve linear equations and linear least-squares problems. AMD does well on the top of the list five of the top 10, 10 of the top 20 but only has 42 machines total on the list. (SmallBusinessComputing)
KEY COGS: Unsung heroes to Hendrick's success Sep 17, 2009
As lead vehicle dynamicist, Stump designs Hendrick's myriad computer simulations, which primarily rely on five forms of software (MacLab, Fortran and Excel among them) and have become critical in the absence of testing. "It's like a video game; you don't have to be a degreed engineer, you just plug (the setup numbers) and play," says Stump, whose R&D team swings between short-term fixes and one-year projects, such as the next-generation Nationwide Series car. (USA Today -- Sports)
MEMORIES: How 20 popular websites looked when they launched... Sep 4, 2009
Then I used a FORTRAN program I copied out of a book to tell their Cray to calculate Pi to infinity. Shut down their system for days. (The Drudge Report)
Nvidia offers $5,000 in prizes to Cuda programmers Aug 28, 2009
GPU computing uses the massively parallel architecture of the graphics processing unit (GPU) as a computational engine using high-level languages and APIs, such as C and Fortran, or programming interfaces, such as DirectCompute and OpenCL. The model for GPU computing is to use a CPU and GPU together in a co-processing computing model. "We anticipate that the CUDA Superhero Challenge will generate many creative approaches to solving computing challenges and will result in game-changing... (EETimes)
The greatest open source software of all time Aug 18, 2009
A common set of compilers available on most Linux and *BSD systems under the GPL, the GCC supports quite a few languages including C, C++, Java, Objective-C, and even Fortran. With the Linux kernel and the GNU system utilities, the GCC completes the Linux holy trinity. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Too Old To Write Software? Or Just the 'Wrong Era'? Jul 8, 2009
(I do still dream about using a VMS debugger to figure out why my FORTRAN code isn t working. . (eSecurityPlanet)
Elderly Ubuntu User Says Books Far Better than Forums May 13, 2009
I'm 75 years old, and the last time I had more to do with a computer than emailing and surfing was in 1960, when I had to write some Fortran programs as a grad student. About a year ago I read something about Linux by an author who had a fine and sophisticated sense of humor, and it occurred to me that if someone like that was a proponent of Linux, there must be something interesting about it that I might like. (Datamation)
Indus Script Encodes Language, Reveals New Study Of Ancient Symbols May 1, 2009
They then repeated the calculations for samples of symbols that are not spoken languages: one in which the placement of symbols was completely random; another in which the placement of symbols followed a strict hierarchy; DNA sequences from the human genome; bacterial protein sequences; and an artificially created linguistic system, the computer programming language Fortran. Results showed that the Indus inscriptions fell in the middle of the spoken languages and differed from any of the... (Science Daily)
Indus Valley code is cracked - maybe Apr 30, 2009
Programming Language - 28,594 lines of code from FORTRAN.. Both camps are adamant they are right. (Asia Times Online)
It was all Harappan in 2000BC Apr 29, 2009
They also studied the pattern of symbols in the DNA code and the computer language Fortran. The randomness with which symbols appeared predicted whether they were likely to be part of a human language. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Harvard record label Veritas teams with Rolling Stone and embarks on a new mission Feb 27, 2009
Singer-guitarist Carrie McDonough and her MIT band Fortran battle it out at Tommy Doyle's last week, part of Veritas's college battle of the bands. (Travis Dove for the Boston Globe) By Globe Correspondent / February 27, 2009. (Boston Globe)
Rogers to get 4G in 2010, merge with cable Feb 20, 2009
Absoft has announced its now available as a application for Fortran developers on the Mac OS X. Previously bundled as part of Absofts Pro Fortran program, Fx3 provides a command line interface that offers analysis and control during the debugging process on the Mac or Linux. The Fx3 debugger as a stand-alone is still compatible with Absoft Pro Fortran and Intel Fortran Compilers, Apple C and GNU C compilers, and assembly language. (Electronista)
