From metcalf@mail.cern.ch Thu Oct 24 08:31:43 1996 Received: from mail1.cern.ch (mail1.cern.ch [137.138.128.19]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id IAA21392 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 08:31:40 +0100 Received: from sp064 (sp064.cern.ch [137.138.128.242]) by mail1.cern.ch with SMTP id JAA28329 (8.7.5/IDA-1.6 for ); Thu, 24 Oct 1996 09:31:08 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 09:31:08 +0200 (METDST) From: Michael Metcalf X-Sender: metcalf@sp064 To: sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Subject: Fortran 90/95 Information File (October) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII ********************************************************************* * Information file, on compilers, tools, books, courses, tutorials, * * and the standard for the Fortran language. * * * * Additional information on Fortran products is available on the * * WWW at the URL http://www.fortran.com/fortran. * ********************************************************************* WHAT'S NEW? Since 26 September: New product FORCHECK added. New graphics interface, f90gl. New book (in French) by Lignelet. Revised Apogee, DEC and Lahey entries. Corrigendum 3 of Fortran 90 standard approved. WHERE CAN I OBTAIN A FORTRAN 90 COMPILER? Absoft sells its native version of Cray's CF90 for the Power Macintosh (sales@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 f90 compiler is highly optimized for SPARC architectures (sales@apogee.com or http://www.apogee.com). Cray Research has a fully-optimizing, native compiler, CF90, that is being marketed by them for the YMP, J90, C90, T90 and T3E, 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 Digital Fortran 90, a native, optimizing compiler for Digital UNIX Alpha systems (with HPF and parallel processing as an option), and for OpenVMS Alpha (with HPF syntax). Versions for Windows NT (Alpha and Intel) and Windows 95 (Intel) are under development and will have an integrated development environment - planned for 1997. Fortran 95 support is planned for mid-1997 (fortran@digital.com or http://www.digital.com/info/hpc/fortran) EPC has optimizing, native compilers for x86, Sun, RS/6000, SGI and MIPS (http://www.epc.co.uk, info@epc.com, support@epc.co.uk). HPF is also available. FORTNER Research (formerly Language 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. Also HPF. 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; rumour has it that it's in beta test. IBM has been shipping its optimizing, native compiler for the RS/6000, xlf Version 3, since 31 December, 1993. HPF is now available too. See http://www.software.ibm.com/ap/fortran. Imagine1 Inc offers F, the subset language for Unix and Windows that they hope will be the true stepping stone to HPF and at the same time replace Basic, Pascal and C for teaching purposes. The version for Linux is free. See http://www.imagine1.com/imagine1 and the book section below. Lahey has a native LF90 compiler for Windows and DOS (sales@lahey.com or http://www.lahey.com). Version 3.0 provides an integrated Windows development environment. There is also elf90, a subset language without old features like storage association that is designed for teaching, and is very cheap. In fact, the elf90 compiler itself can be downloaded free from the Web site. Microsoft has released its Fortran Powerstation V4.0 that includes f90 for Windows NT 3.51 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) for Suns is also available. The NAGWare f90 Tools are a suite of Fortran 90 tools derived from the same technology as the NAGWare f90 compiler (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), Sparc, and T800 transputers. There is a cheap student version available. They also supply an F77 to f90 syntax convertor, LOFT90, and as well as HPF (http://www.nasoftware.co.uk/home.html). NEC has released a native, optimizing Fortran90 compiler, FORTRAN90/SX, with an automatic vectorization and parallelization capability, for its supercomputer SX series (sx-4@sxsmd.ho.nec.co.jp). 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 a Fortran 90/HPF compiler for SGI, IBM SP2, HP/Convex, etc. (sales@pgroup.com or http://www.pgroup.com/). It supplies HPF to Cray and Intel. 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 has the MIPSpro Fortran 90 64-bit compiler, version 6.2. It can be configured with an optional MIPSpro Power Fortran 90 Accelerator (PFA90) to optimize Fortran 90 code for SGI's multiprocessor systems (http://www.sgi.com/Technology/TechPubs/lib/0620bom.html). 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 FORCHECK is a static analyzer for Fortran programs. It analyses both the individual program units and the whole program. It optionally verifies the syntax for conformance to the Fortran 90 standard, and provides warnings on undefined and unreferenced syntax items, inconsistent argument lists, and much more. FORCHECK generates documentation, such as cross-reference tables. See http://www.medfac.leidenuniv.nl/forcheck. 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 CDAC, Hitachi, Intel, Motorola, Meiko, NEC, Transtech and Thinking Machines. 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. A graphics interface, f90gl, is obtainable at http://math.nist.gov/f90gl. 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. An f90 mode is included in the official Emacs distribution (GNU Emacs-19.28/XEmacs-19.13 or later). 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 For a makemake perl script: http://www.fortran.com/fortran/makemake.html. WHAT BOOKS ARE AVAILABLE? English: Advanced Scientific Computing - Wille, Wiley, 1995, ISBN 0471-95383-0. 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, 1996, ISBN 0-19-851888-9, about $33. This book is a complete, audited description of the Fortran 90 and Fortran 95 languages in a more readable style than the standards themselves. It incorporates all X3J3 and WG5's interpretations and has a complete chapter on Fortran 95. 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. The Fortran 90 version 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 95 Language Guide - Gehrke, Springer, London, 1996, ISBN 3-540-76062-8. 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 90/95, Algorithms, and Structured Programming, Part 1: Introduction to Fortran 90, Part 2: Algorithms and Fortran 90. R. Vowels: 93 Park Drive, Parkville 3052, Victoria, AUSTRALIA, (rav@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au). $41 Aust, ISBN 0-9596384-8-2. Introduction to Fortran 90 for Scientific Computing - Ortega, Saunders College Publishing, 1994, ISBN 0-030010198-0. Numerical Recipes in Fortran 90: The Art of Parallel Scientific Computing, Volume 2 of Fortran Numerical Recipes - Press, Teukolsky, Vetterling and Flannery, Cambridge U. Press, ISBN 0-521-57439-0, 1996. Code can be downloaded (purchased) from http://nr.harvard.edu/nr/store. A CDROM is also availble (see Web site). Programmer's Guide to Fortran 90, third edition - Brainerd, Goldberg and Adams, Springer, 1996, ISBN 0-387-94570-9. 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. The F Programming Language - Metcalf and Reid, Oxford University Press, 1996, ISBN 0-19-850026-2, about $33. This book is the definitive description of the F programming language - a carefully crafted subset of Fortran 90 that is highly regular and stripped of Fortran's older, dangerous features, but retains the powerful array language, data abstraction and pointers. It has six Appendices, including an extended example program that is available by ftp and solutions to exercises, as well as an Index. US orders may be sent to: orders@oup-usa.org. 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 Manuel Complet du Langage FORTRAN 90 et FORTRAN 95, Calcul intensif et Genie Logiciel (MASSON Editions, Paris; ISBN: 2-225-85229-4). Programmer en Fortran 90, DELANNOY, C., Eyrolles, 1992. ISBN 2-212-08723-3 Traitement des donnees numeriques avec Fortran 90, OLAGNON M., Masson, 1996, ISBN 2-225-85259-6. Savez-vous parler Fortran, AIN, M., Bibliotheque des universites (de Boeck), 1994. ISBN 2-8041-1755-3 STRUCTURES DE DONNEES (et leurs algorithmes) EN FORTRAN 90/95, P. Lignelet, Les Editions MASSON (Paris, Milan, Barcelone ISBN: 2-225-85373-8). 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. 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. 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); Tom Lahey (sales@lahey.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 80 fax: +33 1 30 12 27 27 e-mail: plestan@simulog.fr Allgemeiner Software Service Prinz-Otto Str.7c, D-85521 Ottobrunn, Germany tel: +49-89-6083758 Fax: +49-89-6083758 e-mail: 100722.746@compuserve.com URL: http://www.wp.com/AllSoftServe 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. Corrigenda 1 and 2 were published by ISO in 1993 and 1995, respectively, and are available from them (cost about 30 Swiss francs). Corrigendum 3 was approved for publication in 1996. 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 is without prejudice. It may be freely copied and disseminated. Corrections and additions are solicited. Mike Metcalf (metcalf@cern.ch) Version of 21 October, 1996.