A new application programming interface for evaluating functions and specifying optimization problems at runtime has been developed. The new interface, named FEFAR, uses a simple language named LEFAR. Compared with other modeling languages such as AMPL or OSil, LEFAR is Fortranlike hence easy to learn and use, in particular for Fortran programmers. FEFAR itself is a Fortran subroutine hence eas...

Various parallel Fortran languages have been developed over the years. The research work in creating this Parallel Fortran Family has made signiicant contributions to parallel programming language design and implementation. In this paper, various parallel Fortran languages are studied based on a uniform coordination approach towards parallel programming. That is, new language constructs in para...

High-performance scientific applications are usually built from software modules written in multiple programming languages. This raises the issue of language interoperability which involves making calls between languages, converting basic types, and bridging disparate programming models. Babel provides a featurerich, extensible, high-performance solution to the language interoperability problem...

Exploiting the full performance potential of distributed memory machines requires a careful distribution of data across the processors. Vienna Fortran is a language extension of Fortran which provides the user with a wide range of facilities for such mapping of data structures. In contrast to current programming practice , programs in Vienna Fortran are written using global data references. Thu...

A new application programming interface forevaluating functions and specifying optimization problems atruntime has been developed. The new interface, named FEFAR,uses a simple language named LEFAR. Compared with othermodeling languages such as AMPL or OSil, LEFAR is Fortran-like hence easy to learn and use, in particular for Fortranprogrammers. FEFAR itself is a Fortran ...

This special issue of Scientific Programming is devoted to celebration of fifty years of mutual and remarkable growth of both scientific programming and its primary language, Fortran. In this brief introduction, we will remark on the past, the present and the future of Fortran and summarize the papers included in this issue. Although the first specification of the Fortran language was released ...

Fortran is the most widely used programming language for high-performance scientific computing applications, yet in the past the Legion system has not supported objects implemented in Fortran. This paper describes the design and interface of the Legion Basic Fortran Support (BFS) system. This system consists of compiler and runtime library that allow the description of Legion object interfaces ...