********************************************************************* * Information file, on compilers, tools, books, courses, tutorials, * * and the standard for the Fortran language and its derivatives. * * This file can be viewed too at http://www.fortran.com/metcalf.htm * * * * Additional information on Fortran is available at * * http://www.fortran.com and http://www.fortranlib.com/. * * * * You can join an active discussion group by going to * * http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/comp-fortran-90. * ********************************************************************* WHAT'S NEW? Since 19 February: Nothing. Since 17 January: Update Salford's, Polyhedron's and FORCHECK's URLs. WHERE CAN I OBTAIN A FORTRAN 95 COMPILER? Absoft offers source compatible F95 toolsets for Linux, Macintosh and Windows. Pro Fortran for v6.2 of MacOS includes an F95 compiler and complete development environment. Version 7.0 for PPC/Linux features a full F95 compiler and graphical debugger. All Absoft Fortran toolsets for PPC include G4 processor optimization and AlitVec optimized version of BLAS, Lapack and IMSL. Pro Fortran for Intel-based systems includes F95 toolsets for Linux which are compatible with Linux kernels 2.0 and later and link compatible with gcc. All Pro Fortran toolsets include VAX/Unix subroutine libraries, math and HDF libraries. Contact: http://www.absoft.com. Compaq offers highly optimizing Fortran 95 compilers for the following platforms: Tru64 UNIX Alpha, OpenVMS Alpha, Windows 95/98/NT, and Linux Alpha. The Windows product, Compaq Visual Fortran, includes the Microsoft Developer Studio IDE which can be shared with Microsoft Visual C++. Parallel execution using OpenMP-directed decomposition or HPF is included on the Tru64 UNIX platform. On Windows NT, SMP parallel execution using directed decomposition is available through Visual KAP from Kuck and Associates. Compaq Fortran for Linux Alpha Systems is available as a free download under a Technology Enthusiast license for non-commercial use. All Compaq Fortran 95 products include the Compaq Extended Math Library of optimized scientific subroutines (on OpenVMS in early 2000.) See: http://www.compaq.com/fortran or mail to [log in to unmask] Cray has a fully-optimizing, native Fortran 95 compiler that is being marketed by them for the CRAY J90, C90, T90, T3E and SV1 systems. It supports automatic parallization and OpenMP. In addition, Cray resells PGI's HPF compiler, for these same systems: http://www.cray.com/products/software/cf90.html and hpf.html. Co-Array Fortran has been implemented on the CRAY-T3E as a supported feature of the Fortran 90 compiler: www.co-array.org. Fujitsu has a Fortran 95 compiler for the platforms Solaris 2.3 or later, Linux and Windows NT/95/98, and highly optimized, native Fortran 95 compilers, UXP/V Fortran, Fortran/VPP and HPF, for the its VPP supercomputers. Contact: Europe: [log in to unmask] or http://www.fujitsu.co.uk/; North America: [log in to unmask] or http://www.tools.fujitsu.com/. HP has collaborated with EPC to produce an optimizing compiler for HP-UX and SPP-UX platforms; as of version v2.4 it supports Fortran 95. See http://www.hp.com/go/hpfortran. IBM XL Fortran for AIX supports the Fortran 95 standard. XLF is a highly optimized, native compiler designed to exploit the RS/6000 symmetric multi-processing (SMP) architecture as well as providing support for 64-bit pointers and addressability for serial and SMP codes. XLF V7.1 provides full support for the OpenMP Fortran API 1.0, allows direct manipulation of the floating-point status and control register, and provides a technical preview of the new IBM Distributed Debugger. For more information: http://www.software.ibm.com/ad/fortran. Intel produces a Fortran 95 optimizing compiler for Windows NT/2000/98/95 that comes complete with its own debugger, module analyzer, and preprocessor. It uses the EPC front end. The compiler performs automatic vectorization, and takes full advantage of Intel's MMX and SSE instruction extensions for the Pentium III. It requires that Microsoft Visual C/C++ be installed, and is capable of plugging into Visual Studio. See http://developer.intel.com. Lahey/Fujitsu Fortran 95 is produced by the Lahey/Fujitsu alliance. LF95 is available in three configurations: LF95 Express, LF95 Standard, and LF95 PRO. All three configurations feature: VAX, IBM, and POSIX language extensions, Visual C++, Visual Basic, and Delphi compatibility, allocatable array enhancements, etc. The Standard system includes a Fortran-smart Windows editor, a debugger, an AUTOMAKE make utility, and an enhanced Winteracter Starter kit for creating true Windows programs with Fortran, and a Coverage Analysis Tool that detects unexecuted code and performs range of operation checking. The PRO system includes Fujitsu’s Visual Analyzer (see below). LF95 Linux Express is also available: [log in to unmask] or http://www.lahey.com. NAG provides a compiler for most unix platforms, VMS and PCs (including Linux/x86 and Alpha). This was the first f90 compiler, in 1991. The unix and Linux ports have now been updated to Fortran 95 plus the ISO extensions for floating-point exception handling and allocatable array enhancements. The NAGWare f90 Tools are a suite of Fortran 90 tools that, among other things, perform F77 to f90 conversion. ([log in to unmask], [log in to unmask] or http://www.nag.co.uk/). NA Software supplies Fortran 95 on PCs including Windows 95, NT and Linux/x86. It includes the ISO extensions for IEEE arithmetic and allocatable array enhancements, a native implementation of ISO_VARYING_STRING, and a built-in module providing OpenGL conformance. It also comes with a GUI-based source level debugger, (http://www.nasoftware.co.uk/home.html). Salford Software markets a Fortran 95 compiler for PCs, including Windows 95 and NT. A cheap student version is available: [log in to unmask] or http://www.salfordsoftware.co.uk. In Japan, contact SofTek Systems, Inc. (see below). SGI has the MIPSpro Fortran 95 compiler (which now uses the Cray front end) available for all SGI IRIX systems. It can be configured with an optional Auto Parallelizing Option (APO) product to do automatic parallelization of Fortran code. It supports OpenMP. See http://www.sgi.com/developers/devtools/languages/fortran.html. An SGI Pro64 compiler for the Intel Itanium processor is available free to the open source community: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/Pro64/. Sun has released a Fortran 95 compliant compiler with a new name, Forte Fortran. This compiler is available as part of two products: Forte Fortran 6 and Forte for High Performance Computing (HPC) 6. Both have Interval Arithmetic, but only the HPC product has OpenMP. Both products are MPI compliant. Sun released a no-cost upgrade for these products in November. Licenses for Forte Developer 6 products will work for Forte Developer 6 update 1. Upgrade improvements include runtime optimizations for UltraSPARC III and linking with C++ objects. The software can be downloaded at http://www.sun.com/forte/fortran/buy.html. (Sun's HPC Cluster Tools, which include MPI, have been "open sourced" and can be freely downloaded.) See http://www.sun.com/forte/fortran; for MPI see http://www.sun.com/hpc. WHERE CAN I OBTAIN A FORTRAN 90 OR SUBSET COMPILER? Apogee's f90 compiler is highly optimized for SPARC architectures ([log in to unmask] or http://www.apogee.com). EPC has optimizing, native compilers for Windows NT, UnixWare 7, Dynix Ptx4 and SPARC Solaris (http://www.epc.co.uk, [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], http://www.epc.co.uk/monterey64_f95.html). In Japan, contact SofTek Systems, Inc. (see below). Imagine1 Inc offers F, the subset language for Unix, Windows and Macintosh PowerPC, some in highly optimizing versions. All of the full professional versions of the F compiler are available free by downloading them from the F anonymous ftp directory: ftp://web01.meltingsand.com/pub/F. See also http://www.imagine1.com and the book section below. Lahey also supplies elf90, a subset language without old features like storage association that is designed for teaching, and is very cheap (see above). NEC has released a native, optimizing Fortran90 compiler, FORTRAN90/SX, with an automatic vectorization and parallelization capability, for its supercomputer SX series ([log in to unmask]). PSR's VAST/f90 compiler for unix, VMS and Convex includes a vectorizer. PSR supplies VAST/77to90, to convert FORTRAN 77 programs into Fortran 90 syntax, as well as VAST/HPF ([log in to unmask] or http://www.psrv.com/). An f90/95/HPF compiler for linux/x86 is free for personal use. PGI has a Fortran 90/HPF compiler for SGI, IBM SP2, HP/Convex, and Sun Ultra, as well as a native F90/HPF compiler for Intel-based Linux/Solaris86/NT workstations and servers. The latter supports auto-parallelization, native OpenMP parallelization, and HPF parallelization ([log in to unmask] or http://www.pgroup.com). SofTek Systems, Inc. is a provider of a wide variety of HPF compilers, tools, and technical expertise. See either [log in to unmask] or http://www.softek.co.jp. Tel: 81-3-3412-6008, fax: 81-3-3412-7990. OTHER USEFUL PRODUCTS DMS Reengineering Toolkit is used for automated analyses and changes to large software systems. This toolkit can parse large systems of F77/F90/F95 and produce compiler-like abstract syntax trees, etc. (http://www.semdesigns.com/Products/DMS/DMSToolkit.html). Fujitsu Visual Analyzer (www.lahey.com): Visually analyze the call structure and logic flow of your Fortran and Csource code. Display a detailed cross reference of all the variables in the program and where modules and commons are defined and referenced. Show C global variable definitions and references as well. VA can help you understand someone else's code, detect subtle programming errors across multiple files, and verify compliance with the Fortran 95 standard. 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 95 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.forcheck.nl. FORESYS (FORtran Engineering SYStem) is an integrated set of tools designed for engineers in charge of developing, maintaining and upgrading programs written in Fortran. It is suited for, among other things, migrating applications from Fortran 77 to Fortran 90. See Simulog below. Fortran90-lint, for Fortran 90 program analysis, also other tools, from http://www.cleanscape.net/stdprod/ftp/ftpflint.html. Spackman & Hendrickson, Inc. supply SHAPE95, a comprehensive set of Fortran 95 compiler conformance tests. There are over 7500 individual, executable, self-checking, test subroutines. Each subroutine tests a particular aspect of compiler conformance to the Fortran 95 standard. The test suite is platform and OS independent and is bootstrapable from a Fortran 90 compiler. Installation and training are also available. For more information contact Dick Hendrickson, [log in to unmask] (612) 378-9694. Bradly Associates supplies the GINO and GINOMENU range of GUI and Graphics libraries for Win32, Unix and OpenVMS with an F90 binding. More information at www.bradassoc.co.uk. A 2- and 3-D OpenGL graphics interface, f90gl, for Unix and Windows 95/NT, is obtainable at http://math.nist.gov/f90gl. Latest version is 1.2. A version compatible with Lahey/Fujitsu Fortran 95 (LF95) and Lahey Fortran 90 (LF90) is available at www.lahey.com/support/SetupF90gl.exe. I.S.S. supplies Winteracter, a Win32 Fortran 9x GUI toolkit, providing source-level compatibility between Win32 and Unix/Linux. See http://www.demon.co.uk/issltd/. HPF is available not only as listed above, but also on the definitive list of sites to be found at www.ac.upc.es/HPFSurvey. See also http://www.crpc.rice.edu/HPFF. A source form convertor, convert.f90, is obtainable by ftp from ftp.numerical.rl.ac.uk in the directory /pub/MandR. Latest version is 1.5. Another is Alan Miller's to_f90.f90 at http://www.ozemail.com.au/~milleraj. A free set of wrapper routines to call a subset of Xlib routines from Fortran 90 is available from Garnatz and Grovender, Inc.: [log in to unmask], http://www.winternet.com/~gginc/, or ftp.winternet.com/users/gginc. NAG (see above) and IMSL (now Visual Numerics, [log in to unmask]) 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. Another f90-aware Makefile maker written in perl is available at http://www.gfdl.gov/~vb/mkmf.html. Polyhedron Software's plusFORT Version 6.0 has comprehensive facilities for translation of Fortran 77 and VAX Fortran to Fortran 90. A new Windows front-end is available for the NT version. A major feature is AUTOMAKE, which automatically detects Fortran 90 module dependencies. [log in to unmask], http://www.polyhedron.com/. A F90 source for a f90split utility is at ftp://ftp.ifremer.fr/ifremer/ditigo/fortran90/f90split.f90.gz. See also http://www.ifremer.fr/ditigo/molagnon/fortran90/ and ftp://ftp.ifremer.fr/ifremer/ditigo/fortran90/moware-1.0.tar.gz to get an F90 to PostScript list program and an F90 aware pre-processor similar to cpp, but with pretty-printing for the pre-processed code. A C2F.ZIP file is available at http://home.cfl.rr.com/davegemini/C2F.ZIP. It contains C2F.EXE, a C->F90 "hands-off" translator program for Win95/NT. Some coding and style guidelines have been developed by the European meteorologists: http://www.meto.gov.uk/sec5/NWP/NWP_F90Standards.html. f90SQL offers a convenient and familiar way to directly read and write data from your Fortran programs to many applications formats. See info about the library at http://www.canaimasoft.com/f90sql. WHAT BOOKS ARE AVAILABLE? English books on Fortran 95: Fortran 90/95 Explained (2nd. edition) - Metcalf & Reid, Oxford U. Press, 1999, ISBN 0-19-850558-2, 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 J3 and WG5's interpretations and has chapters on the floating-point exception handling and the data type enhancement of the official ISO extensions. It has six Appendices, including an extended example program that is available by ftp and solutions to exercises. For US orders: www.oup-usa.org or toll free 1-800-451-7556; in the UK: www.oup.co.uk. Fortran 90/95 for Scientists and Engineers - Chapman, McGraw-Hill, 1997, ISBN 0-07-011938-4. Fortran 95 - Counihan, UCL, 1997, 185728367-8. Fortran 95 Handbook - Adams, Brainerd, Martin, Smith and Wagener, MIT, 1997, ISBN 0-262-51096-0. Fortran 95 Language Guide - Gehrke, Springer, London, 1996, ISBN 3-540-76062-8. Fortran Top 90--90 Key Features of Fortran 90, Adams, Brainerd, Martin, Smith. Unicomp, 1994, ISBN 0-9640135-0-9 Introduction to Fortran 90/95 - Chapman, McGraw-Hill, 1997, ISBN 0-07-011969-4. 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, ([log in to unmask]). $43 Aust with disk, ISBN 0-9596384-8-2. The DIGITAL Visual Fortran Programmer's Guide, ISBN 1-55558-218-4, April, 1999. English books on Fortran 90: Fortran 90 - Meissner, PWS Kent, Boston, 1995, ISBN 0-534-93372-6. Fortran 90 - Huddleston, Exchange Publ. Div., Buffalo, NY, 1996, ISBN 0-945261-07-1. Fortran 90 and Engineering Computation - Schick and Silverman, John Wiley, 1994, ISBN 0-471-58512-2. Fortran 90 Concise Reference - Wagener, Absoft, 1998, ISBN 0-9670066-0-0. Fortran 90 for Engineers and Scientists - Nyhoff and Leestma, Prentice Hall, 1996, ISBN 0-13-519729-5. An 'Introduction to ....' also exists: 1996, ISBN 0-13-505215-7. Fortran 90 for Scientists and Engineers - Brian D. Hahn, Edward Arnold, 1994, ISBN 0-340-60034-9. Fortran 90 Programming - Ellis, Philips, Lahey, Addison Wesley, Wokingham, 1994, ISBN 0-201-54446-6. Introducing Fortran 90 - Chivers and Sleightholme, Springer-Verlag London, 1995, ISBN 3-540-19940-3. Problem solving with Fortran 90: for scientists and engineers - Brooks, 1997, Springer, 0-387-98229-9. 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. Upgrading to Fortran 90 - Redwine, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1995, ISBN 0-387-97995-6. English books on subset languages: Algorithms and Data Structures in F and Fortran - Vowels, Unicomp, 1998, ISBN 0-9640135-4-1. Order from http://www.uni-comp.com/fortran. essential Fortran 90 and 95 - Meissner, Unicomp, 1997, ISBN 0-9640135-3-3. Key Features of F - Adams, Brainerd, Martin and Smith, 1996, ISBN 0-9640135-2-5, Unicomp. Programmer's Guide to F - Brainerd, Goldberg and Adams, 1996, ISBN 0-9640135-1-7, Unicomp. The F Language Guide - Gehrke, Springer, London, 1997, ISBN 3-540-7615-9. 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. Orders: www.oup-usa.org or toll free 1-800-451-7556; UK: www.oup.co.uk. English books on related topics: Advanced Scientific Computing - Wille, Wiley, 1995, ISBN 0471-95383-0. Atlas for Computing Mathematical Functions ... in Fortran 90 and Mathematica - Thompson, Wiley, 1997, 0-471-18171-4. Contemporary Computing for Technical Engineers and Scientists: using Fortran 90 and spreadsheets - Forsythe, PWS, 1997, 0-534-93139-1. 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://www.nr.com. A CDROM is also available (see Web site). 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. Fortran 90 - Walter S. Brainerd, Charles H. Goldberg, Jeanne C. Adams, CHEP, Beijing and Springer, Berlin, 2000, ISBN 7-04-007937-2 (a translation of Programmer's Guide to Fortran 90). Danish: Fortran - Britz, IDG Forlag, ISBN 87-7843-263-4, 1999. 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. Finnish: Fortran 90 - Haataja, Rahola and Ruokolainen, Center for Scientific Computing (Finland), 1996, 286 pages, ISBN 952-9821-33-6. WWW version: http://www.csc.fi/oppaat/f90/ French: Fortran 90; Approche par la Pratique - P. Lignelet, Série Informatique Éditions, Menton, 1993, ISBN 2-909615-01-4. Fortran 90. Les concepts fondamentaux, the translation of "Fortran 90 Explained" M. Metcalf, J. Reid, translated by M. Caillat and B. Pichon, AFNOR, 1993, Paris, ISBN 2-12-486513-7. Fortran 90; Initiation à partir du Fortran 77 - Aberti, Série Informatique Éditions, Menton, 1992, ISBN 2-909615-00-6. Les spécificités du Fortran 90, M. Dubesset et J. Vignes, Éditions Technip, 1993. ISBN 2-7108-0652-5. Manuel complet du langage Fortran 90, et guide d’application, P. Lignelet, Série Informatique Éditions, 1995. ISBN 2-909615-02-2. Manuel Complet du Langage Fortran 90 et Fortran 95, Calcul intensif et Génie Logiciel, P. Lignelet, Masson Éditions, Paris, 1996, ISBN: 2-225-85229-4. Programmer en Fortran 90, C. Delannoy, Eyrolles, 1992, ISBN 2-212-08723-3. Traitement des données numériques avec Fortran 90, M. Olagnon, Masson Éditions, 1996, ISBN 2-225-85259-6. Structures des données (et leurs algorithmes) en Fortran 90/95, P. Lignelet, Masson Éditions, Paris, ISBN 2-225-85373-8. German: Fortran 90 Lehrbuch - Rabenstein, Hanser, 1995, ISBN 3-446-18235-7. Die Programmiersprache F - Gehrke, Springer-Verlag, ISBN 3-540-63376-6. Fortran 90 - B.Wojcieszynski and R.Wojcieszynski, Addison-Wesley, 1993, ISBN 3-89319-600-5. Fortran 90: eine informelle Einführung - Heisterkamp, BI-Wissenschaftsverlag, 1991, ISBN 3-411153-210. Fortran 90, Lehr- und Arbeitsbuch für das erfolgreiche Programmieren - W.S. Brainerd, C.H. Goldberg, and J.C. Adams, translated by P. Thomas and K. 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. Programmierung mit Fortran 90 - Bäumer, Vieweg, Braunschweig, 1997, ISBN 3-528-05208-2. 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 - Überhuber and Meditz, Springer Verlag, 1993, ISBN 0-387-82450-2. Italian: Some resources in Italian, including a manual, are at http://space.tin.it/computer/gciabu. 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 [log in to unmask] FORTRAN 77 to Fortran 90 Tutorial - Einarsson and Shokin, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, 1995, ISBN 5-85826-013-6. 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: Paul Dubois's lecture notes and class materials on "Object Based Programming in Fortran 90" at ftp://pyfortran.sourceforge.net/pub/pyfortran/OBF90. (In WinZip, on the Options|Configuration menu, turn off "tar smart convert CR/LF".) 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. U. of Liverpool: http://www.liv.ac.uk/HPC/HPCpage.html - covers f90 and HPF, with Java-enhanced Web pages. CERN: http://wwwinfo.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 http://www.idris.fr/data/cours/lang/f90). U . of Edinburgh (on HPF): http:// www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/epcc-tec/course-packages/HPF-Package-form.html Linkoping U.: http://www.nsc.liu.se/f77to90.html. Courses are available from: Walt Brainerd, a former member of J3, also on HPF ([log in to unmask]). Tom Lahey ([log in to unmask]). PSR (see above). Michael Metcalf, formerly of CERN, Switzerland, and an ex-member of J3 and WG5, offers a Fortran 95 course that lasts for six 75-minute sessions. There is an F version too. He is happy to negotiate holding either version anywhere in the world. These courses are suitable for graduates, or equivalent level, and are a useful way to 'kick-start' a Fortran 90/95 or an F activity at a given site. Contact [log in to unmask], or Kärntner Ring 10, A-1010 Vienna, Austria, (tel. +43.1.503.79.40, fax. +43.1.503.11.45). John Reid, formerly of J3 and a member of WG5, offers a Fortran 90 course. He is happy to negotiate holding it anywhere in the world. It is suitable for graduates, or equivalent level, and is a useful way to 'kick-start' a Fortran 90 activity at a given site. Contact [log in to unmask] Purple Sage Computing Solutions, Inc. is offering three Workshops to Fortran programmers: The Fortran Modernization, Optimization and Parallelization Workshop; The Parallelization for Fortran Programmers Workshop; and The fthreads Workshop. Contact [log in to unmask] or http://users.erols.com/dnagle. European companies offering courses and conversion consultancy are: Cranfield University (RMCS Shrivenham) offers 3-day courses: Introduction to Fortran 90, Fortran 90 for Fortran 77 Programmers, and Advanced Fortran 90. Courses can be arranged also on demand: http://www.rmcs.cranfield.ac.uk/departments/esd/amorg/courses/ The Computing Centre of Delft University of Technology organises courses on Fortran 90 elements for beginning programmers or an upgrade for Fortran 77 programmers. Courses can be given in English, Dutch, French, or German. See http://www.rc.tudelft.nl/cursus/ or [log in to unmask] Phone: +31 15 278 2000, fax: +31 15 278 3787. 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 [log in to unmask], http://www.simulog.fr/iforef.htm Allgemeiner Software Service Prinz-Otto Str.7c, D-85521 Ottobrunn, Germany Tel: +49-89-6083758 Fax: +49-89-60851437 E-mail: [log in to unmask], URL: http://www.alsos.com A Japanese company offering courses and conversion consultancy is: SofTek Systems, Inc. (see above). WHERE CAN I FIND THE FORTRAN AND HPF STANDARDS? The Fortran 95 standard document is available from ISO, and replaces Fortran 90. The document reference number is ISO/IEC 1539-1:1997. See http://www.iso.ch, or contact 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 The Fortran 95 standard is also available for online ordering in both electronic forms (ASCII, PostScript, and PDF) and printed form at http://www.fortran.com. The prices are set by ISO. The HPF 2.0 document is available as ftp://softlib.rice.edu/pub/HPF/hpf-v20.ps.gz. ***** 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 ([log in to unmask]) Version of 19 February, 2001 (the first year of the millennium)