The programming language Fortran dates back to 1957 when a team of IBM engineers released the first Fortran Compiler. During the past 60 years, the language had been revised and updated several times to incorporate more features to enable writing clean and structured computer programs. The present version is Fortran 2018. Since the dawn of the computer era, there had been a constant demand for a "larger" and "faster" machine. To increase the speed there are three hurdles. The density of the active components on a VLSI chip cannot be increased indefinitely and with the increase of the density heat dissipation becomes a major problem. Finally, the speed of any signal cannot exceed the velocity of the light. However, by using several inexpensive processors in parallel coupled with specialized software and hardware, programmers can achieve computing speed similar to a supercomputer.


This book can be used to learn the modern Fortran from the beginning and the technique of developing parallel programs using Fortran. It is for anyone who wants to learn Fortran. Knowledge beyond high school mathematics is not required. There is not another book on the market yet which deals with Fortran 2018 as well as parallel programming.


FEATURES




Descriptions of majority of Fortran 2018 instructions
Numerical Model
String with Variable Length
IEEE Arithmetic and Exceptions
Dynamic Memory Management
Pointers
Bit handling
C-Fortran Interoperability
Object Oriented Programming
Parallel Programming using Coarray
Parallel Programming using OpenMP
Parallel Programming using Message Passing Interface (MPI)


THE AUTHOR


Dr Subrata Ray, is a retired Professor, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata.