From METCALF@crnvma.cern.ch Mon Mar 18 09:55:00 1996 Received: from CERNVM.CERN.CH (crnvmb.cern.ch [137.138.26.60]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id JAA27182 for ; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 09:54:49 +0100 Message-Id: <199603180854.JAA27182@dkuug.dk> Received: from CERNVM.CERN.CH by CERNVM.CERN.CH (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 8075; Mon, 18 Mar 96 09:53:42 WET Received: from CERNVM.CERN.CH (NJE origin METCALF@CERNVM) by CERNVM.CERN.CH (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 6287; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 09:53:41 +0100 Date: Mon, 18 Mar 96 09:53:15 WET From: Michael Metcalf Subject: Fortran Information (March) To: sc22wg5@DKUUG.DK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~Don't forget the Fortran Futures Conference near London Heathrow~ ~airport on 25/26 April: ~ ~ http://www.nag.co.uk/other/ff96.html ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ********************************************************************* * Fortran 90 information file, on compilers, tools, books, courses, * * tutorials and the standard. * ********************************************************************* Note: additional information on Fortran 90 products is availble on WWW with the URL http://www.fortran.com/fortran. WHERE CAN I OBTAIN A FORTRAN 90 COMPILER? Absoft is about to beta-test a version of Cray's CF90 for the Power Macintosh. Windows NT and 95 versions will follow (fortran@absoft.com or http://www.absoft.com/). ACE of Holland provides f90 and HPF for Parsytec PowerPC-based machines (marco@ace.nl, http://www.ace.nl/). Apogee's compiler is highly optimized for SPARC architectures (info@apogee.com). Used on the Meiko CS-2HA. Cray Research has a fully-optimizing, native compiler, CF90, that is being marketed by them, and by Visual Numerics for workstations, starting with Suns (craysoft@cray.com or http://www.cray.com/PUBLIC/product-info/craysoft/Fortran_90.html). Digital has DEC Fortran 90, a native, optimizing compiler for Digital UNIX on Alpha systems (with HPF), and for OpenVMS Alpha (without HPF). A Windows NT (Alpha) version is likely to follow (fortran90@digital.com or http://www.digital.com/info/hpc/f90). EPC has optimizing, native compilers for x86, Sun, RS/6000, SGI and MIPS (info@epc.com or support@epc.co.uk). HPF is also available. FORTNER Research (formerly Laguage Systems Corp) expects to deliver f90 for Macintoshes at some unspecified date. Fujitsu is marketing a native Fortran 90 Workbench for Solaris 1.1 and 2.x. Contact Unicomp (walt@fortran.com) or Fujitsu (info@ossi.com). HP has stated its intention to collaborate with EPC to produce a compiler for HP and Convex platforms, timescale not yet announced. IBM has been shipping its optimizing, native compiler for the RS/6000, xlf Version 3, as of 31 December, 1993. HPF will be available in April. See http://www.software.ibm.com/ap/fortran. Lahey has been shipping a native LF90 compiler for DOS since 29 August, 1994 (sales@lahey.com or http://www.lahey.com). It is particularly well optimized on the Pentium. Also on offer is elf90, a subset language that does not allow storage association and is very cheap. Microsoft has released its Fortran Powerstation V4.0 that includes f90 for Windows NT 3.5 and Windows 95 (fortran@microsoft.com or http://www.microsoft.com/fortran). It is a 32-bit compiler with optimizations for Pentium and 486. Microway NDP Fortran 90 for 386/486 and Pentium is available (nina@microway.com). NAG provides a compiler for most unix platforms, VMS and PCs (including Linux). This was the first f90 compiler, in 1991. An optimizing version produced in collaboration with ACE (see above) will be released in the first quarter of 1996. FORESYS 90, to convert from F77 source to f90, is available too (infodesk@nag.com, infodesk@nag.co.uk or http://www.nag.co.uk/). NA Software supplies Fortran 90 Plus on PCs (including Windows 95 and Linux) and T800 and T9000 transputers (marketing@nasoftwr.demon.co.uk). There is a cheap student version available. They also supply a F77 to f90 syntax convertor, LOFT90, as well as HPF. PSR's VAST/f90 compiler for unix, VMS and Convex includes a vectorizer. PSR also supplies VAST/77to90, to convert FORTRAN 77 programs into Fortran 90 syntax, as well as HPF (info@psrv.com or http://www.psrv.com/) ParaSoft has a compiler (f90-info@parasoft.com, or http://www.parasoft.com/f90.html). PGI has released a subset Fortran 90/HPF compiler for SGI and IBM SP2. (sales@pgroup.com or http://www.pgroup.com/). It supplies HPF to Cray. Salford Software markets a PC version of the NAG compiler, also for Windows 95 and NT (sales@salford-software.com or http://www.salford.ac.uk/ssl/ss.html). A very cheap student version is available (EuroSoft@fc.net). SGI released the MIPSpro Fortran 90 64-bit compiler in June 1995. It can be configured with an optional MIPSpro Power Fortran 90 Accelerator (PFA90) to optimize Fortran 90 code for SGI's multiprocessor systems. SofTech has a licence to sell its own versions of DEC's HPF/f90 compiler. Sun has released an f90 compiler based on Cray's CF90, initially for Solaris 2 (tel. 1-800-SUNSOFT or URL http://www.sun.com/sunsoft/Products/Developer-products). OTHER USEFUL PRODUCTS FORGE90 and an HPF processor from APR (support@apri.com or http://www.infomall.org/apri/) are available. HPF is apparently available not only as listed above, but also from Hitachi, Intel, Motorola, Meiko, and NEC. I have no details. A source form convertor, convert.f90, is obtainable by ftp from jkr.cc.rl.ac.uk in the directory /pub/MandR. Latest version is 1.4. NAG (see above) and IMSL (now Visual Numerics, mktg@houston.vni.com) offer f90 versions of their maths libraries that take full advantage of the language's library building capabilities. Files for a Fortran 90 emacs mode can be retrieved by ftp to mailbase.ac.uk, directory /pub/lists/comp-fortran-90/files/, or by Gopher and WWW, URL gopher://nisp.ncl.ac.uk/11/lists-a-e/comp-fortran-90/files, or by sending an e-mail to mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk, containing the command send (e.g. send comp-fortran-90 f90.el). For make files, a perl5 script, which behaves like an X11 makedepend program (it edits an existing Makefile) and recursively searches include files for more dependencies, is available from Kate Hedstrom: ftp://ahab.rutgers.edu/pub/perl/sfmakedepend http://marine.rutgers.edu/po/perl.html WHAT BOOKS ARE AVAILABLE? English: Fortran 90 - Meissner, PWS Kent, Boston, 1995, ISBN 0-534-93372-6. Fortran 90 - Counihan, Pitman, 1991, ISBN 0-273-03073-6. Fortran 90 and Engineering Computation - Schick and Silverman, John Wiley, 1994, ISBN 0-471-58512-2. Fortran 90, A Reference Guide - Chamberland, Prentice Hall PTR, 1995, ISBN 0-13-397332-8. Fortran 90/95 Explained - Metcalf and Reid, Oxford University Press, 1990, ISBN 0-19-853772-7, about $35. This book is a complete, audited description of the Fortran 90 language in a more readable style than the standard itself. It has seven Appendices, including an extended example program that is available by ftp and solutions to exercises, as well as an Index. US e-mail orders may be sent to: orders@oup-usa.org. It is also available in French, Japanese and Russian (see below). Fortran 90 for Scientists and Engineers - Brian D. Hahn, Edward Arnold, 1994, ISBN 0-340-60034-9. Fortran 90 Handbook - Adams, Brainerd, Martin, Smith and Wagener, McGraw-Hill, 1992, ISBN 0-07-000406-4. Fortran 90 Language Guide - Gehrke, Springer, London, 1995, ISBN 3-540-19926-8. Fortran 90 Programming - Ellis, Philips, Lahey, Addison Wesley, Wokingham, 1994, ISBN 0-201-54446-6. Fortran Top 90-Ninety Key Features of Fortran 90 - Adams, Brainerd, Martin and Smith, Unicomp, 1994, ISBN 0-9640135-0-9. Introducing Fortran 90 - Chivers and Sleightholme, Springer-Verlag London, 1995, ISBN 3-540-19940-3. Introduction to Fortran 90, Algorithms, and Structured Programming, Vol. 1, R. Vowels: 93 Park Drive, Parkville 3052, Victoria, AUSTRALIA, (rav@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au). $20 Aust, $15 US, ISBN 0-9596384-8-2. Introduction to Fortran 90 for Scientific Computing - Ortega, Saunders College Publishing, 1994, ISBN 0-030010198-0. Migrating to Fortran 90 - James F. Kerrigan, O'Reilly Associates, 1993, ISBN 1-56592-049-X. Programmer's Guide to Fortran 90, second edition - Brainerd, Goldberg and Adams, Unicomp, 1994. Programming in Fortran 90 - Morgan and Schonfelder, Alfred Waller/ McGraw-Hill, Oxfordshire, 1993, ISBN 1-872474-06-3. Programming in Fortran 90 - I.M. Smith, Wiley, ISBN 0471-94185-9. Schaum's Outline of Theory and Praxis -- Programming in Fortran 90 - Mayo and Cwiakala, Mc Graw Hill, 1996. ISBN 0-07-041156-5. Upgrading to Fortran 90 - Redwine, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1995, ISBN 0-387-97995-6. Chinese: Programming Language Fortran 90 - He Xingui, Xu Zuyuan, Wu Qingbao and Chen Mingyuan, China Railway Publishing House, Beijing, ISBN 7-113-01788-6/TP.187, 1994. Dutch: Fortran 90 - W.S. Brainerd, Ch.H. Goldberg, and J.C. Adams, translated by J.M. den Haan, Academic Service, 1991, ISBN 90 6233 722 8. French: Fortran 90; Approche par la Pratique - Lignelet, Se'rie Informatique E'ditions, Menton, 1993, ISBN 2-090615-01-4. Fortran 90. Les concepts fondamentaux, the translation of "Fortran 90 Explained" M. Metcalf, J. Reid, translated by M. Caillet and B. Pichon, AFNOR, Paris, ISBN 2-12-486513-7. Fortran 90; Initiation a` partir du Fortran 77 - Aberti, Se'rie Informatique E'ditions, Menton, 1992, ISBN 2-090615-00-6. Les specificites du Fortran 90, DUBESSET, M. et VIGNES, J., editions Technip, 1993. ISBN 2-7108-0652-5 Manuel complet du langage Fortran 90, et guide d'application, LIGNELET, P., S.I. editions, Jan. 1995. ISBN 2-909615-02-2 Programmer en Fortran 90, DELANNOY, C., Eyrolles, 1992. ISBN 2-212-08723-3 Savez-vous parler Fortran, AIN, M., Bibliotheque des universites (de Boeck), 1994. ISBN 2-8041-1755-3 German: Fortran 90 - B.Wojcieszynski and R.Wojcieszynski, Addison-Wesley, 1993, ISBN 3-89319-600-5. Fortran 90: eine informelle Einfu"hrung - Heisterkamp, BI-Wissenschaftsverlag, 1991, ISBN 3-411153-21-0. Fortran 90, Lehr- und Arbeitsbuch fuer das erfolgreiche Programmieren - W.S. Brainerd, C.H. Goldberg, and J.C. Adams, translated by Peter Thomas and Klaus G. Paul, R. Olbenbourg Verlag, Muenchen, 1994, ISBN 3-486-22102-7. Fortran 90 Lehr- und Handbuch - T. Michel, BI-Wissenschaftsverlag, 1994. Fortran 90 Referenz-Handbuch: der neue Fortran-Standard - Gehrke, Carl Hansen Verlag, 1991, ISBN 3-446163-21-2. Programmierung in Fortran 90 - Schobert, Oldenburg, 1991. Programmieren in Fortran - Erasmus Langer, Springer-Verlag, Wien New York, 1993. ISBN 3-211-82446-4, 0-387-82446-4. Software Entwicklung in Fortran 90 - U"berhuber and Meditz, Springer Verlag, 1993, ISBN 0-387-82450-2. Japanese: Fortran 90 Explained - Metcalf and Reid, translated by H. Nisimura, H. Wada, K. Nishimura, M. Takata, Kyoritsu Shuppan Co., Ltd., 1993, ISSN 0385-6984. Russian An Explanation of the Fortran 90 Programming Language (translation of Fortran 90 Explained - Metcalf and Reid), translated P. Gorbounov, Mir, Moscow, 1995, ISBN 5-03-001426-8. Available also from Petr.Gorbounov@cern.ch. Fortran 90. The book for FORTRAN 77 programmers - Einarsson and Shokin, translated by L.B. Chubarov, Novosibirsk. Apply to chubarov@ictnw.scnet.nsk.su. Swedish Fortran 90 - en introduktion - Blom, Studentlitteratur, Lund, 1994, ISBN 91-44-47881-X. WHERE CAN I OBTAIN COURSES, COURSE MATERIAL OR CONSULTANCY? Copyright but freely available course material is available on the World Wide Web from the URLs: Manchester Computer Centre: http://www.hpctec.mcc.ac.uk/hpctec/courses/Fortran90/F90course.html or via ftp: ftp.mcc.ac.uk, in the directory /pub/mantec/Fortran90. The University of Liverpool: http://www.liv.ac.uk/HPC/HPCpage.html. CERN: http://wwwcn.cern.ch/asdoc/f90.html or via anonymous ftp from asisftp.cern.ch in the directory cnl as the file f90tutor.ps. An ASCII copy of this material as a set of slides for a six-hour course is available from metcalf@cern.ch. In French: Support de cours Fortran 90 IDRIS - Corde & Delouis (from ftp.ifremer.fr, file pub/ifremer/fortran90/f90_cours_4.ps.gz). A course on HPF is freely available from Edinburgh: http:// www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/epcc-tec/course-packages/HPF-Package-form.html Courses are available from: Walt Brainerd, a member of X3J3, also on HPF (walt@fortran.com); PSR (see above); CETech, Inc. (also on HPF) 8196 SW Hall Blvd., Ste. 304, Beaverton, Oregon 97008, USA. Phone: (503)644-6106 Fax: (503)643-8425 (cetech@teleport.com). European companies offering courses and conversion consultancy are: IT Independent Training Limited, 2 Windlebrook Green, Bracknell, Berkshire, UK tel. +44 1344 860172 fax. +44 1344 867992 Salford Software (see above); Simulog, attn. Mr. E. Plestan, 1 rue James Joule, F-78286 Guyancourt Cedex, France tel: +33 1 30 12 27 00 fax: +33 1 30 12 27 27 CTS, Prinz-Otto Str. 7c, D-85521 Ottobrunn , Germany tel: +49-89-6083758 fax: +49-89-6083758 WHERE CAN I FIND THE STANDARD? Fortran 90 was adopted as an International Standard by ISO in July, 1991, as ISO/IEC 1539:1991, and is obtainable for 185 Swiss francs from ISO Publications, 1 rue de Varembe, Case postale 56 CH-1211 Geneva 20, Switzerland Fax. + 41 22 734 10 79 It may also be obtained from national member bodies such as ANSI, 1430 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10018 (where it is also known as ANSI X3.198-1992), or in electronic PostScript or ASCII form from Unicomp (walt@fortran.com) at a cost and under conditions agreed by ISO. A Corrigendum 1 was published by ISO on 1 September, 1994, and is available from them (cost about 30 Swiss francs). A Russian translation of the standard (translator S.G.Drobyshevich) is available from the editor, Alla Gorelik (gorelik@applmat.msk.su). ***** This information is compiled on a 'best-effort' basis and without prejudice. It may be freely copied and disseminated. Corrections and additions are solicited. Mike Metcalf (metcalf@cern.ch) Version of 15 March, 1996.