Re: NEC-LIST: Fortran execution speed

Quoting John Kot <john.kot_at_optusnet.com.au>, on Sat 12 Jul 2008
09:27:20 PM PDT:

> We have just ported a bunch of Fortran antenna codes (but not NEC) from Unix
> workstations onto PCs using g95 and g77 under the "Cygwin" environment. So
> far it works OK, although we can't get the debugging tools to work.
>
> I'd be interested in other people's experience with different Fortran
> compilers and IDEs for NEC and similar MoM codes.
>
> John

One might want to ask the folks over on the Beowulf mailing list (or
just check the archives). An enormous number of codes run on clusters
are in FORTRAN, so there's a fair amount of interest in "good"
compilers.

Intel has one, Portland Group has another, there are others..

http://www.beowulf.org/

>
>
> On 13/7/08 8:08 AM, "GrantBingeman_at_cs.com" <GrantBingeman_at_cs.com> wrote:
>
>> I find that my old Fortran MoM programs I wrote in the early 1980's run
>> infinitely faster than those compiled with Visual-Basic 6.0, and
>> other trendy
>> languages. I write in about 12 different languages, and Fortran is
>> a favorite.
>> However, there are many popular Fortran compiler, linker, editor tools
>> available
>> today that are so buggy as to be useless. Some of the premier Fortran
>> development packages are no longer supported, and support groups
>> are not very
>> effective in keeping the old products alive, tending to modify the code in
>> ways
>> guaranteed to invoke the Law of Unintended Consequences. g
>>
>> www.qsl.net/km5kg
>> Grant W. Bingeman, P.E.
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