PRACE PATC Course: Advanced Fortran Topics

© Alessandro Podo, LRZ

This course, partly a PRACE Advanced Training Center (PATC) course, is targeted at scientists who wish to extend their knowledge of Fortran to cover advanced features of the language.

Topics covered include:

Days 1-3:

• Best Practices
• global objects and interfaces
• abstract interfaces and the IMPORT statement
• object based programming
• Object-Oriented Programming
• type extension, polymorphism and inheritance
• binding of procedures to types and objects
• generic type-bound procedures
• abstract types and deferred bindings
• IEEE features and floating point exceptions
• Interoperability with C
• mixed language programming patterns
• Fortran 2003 I/O extensions
  

Days 4-5 (PATC course, support by PRACE still has to be approved):

• OO Design Patterns: application of object-oriented programming
• creation and destruction of objects
• polymorphic objects and function arguments
• interacting objects
• dependency inversion: submodules and plugins
• Coarrays
• PGAS concepts and coarray basics
• dynamic entities
• advanced synchronization
• parallel programming patterns
• recent enhancements: collectives, events, teams, atomic subroutines
• performance aspects of coarray programming

To consolidate the lecture material, each day's approximately 4 hours of lecture are complemented by 3 hours of hands-on sessions. The last 2 days of the course are a PATC event.

non-PATC days (Mon-Wed) PATC-days (Thu-Fri) (preliminary)

Course participants should have good knowledge of the Fortran 95 standard (such as covered in the February course at LRZ), and also basic UNIX/Linux knowledge (e.g. shell commands, simple scripts, editors like vi or emacs).