From its earliest days, the Fortran programming language has been designed with computing efficiency in mind. The latest standard, Fortran 2008, incorporates a host of modern features, including object-orientation, array operations, user-defined types, and provisions for parallel computing. This tutorial guide shows Fortran programmers how to apply these features in twenty-first-century style: modular, concise, object-oriented, and resource-efficient, using multiple processors. It offers practical real-world examples of interfacing to C, memory management, graphics and GUIs, and parallel computing using MPI, OpenMP, and coarrays. The author also analyzes several numerical algorithms and their implementations and illustrates the use of several open source libraries. Full source code for the examples is available on the book's Web site.

Author: Arjen Markus
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 06/18/2012
Pages: 270
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781107603479


Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2013

About the Author
Markus, Arjen: - Arjen Markus is a senior consultant at Deltares, an institute for applied research in the field of water, subsurface and infrastructure in the Netherlands, where he develops and maintains their numerical modelling programs and the tools that accompany them. He is an active contributor to the ACM newsletter Fortran Forum and the comp.lang.fortran newsgroup.