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CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED TECHNICAL TRAINING

Fortran 90 / High Performance Fortran Course Outline

• Day 1 - F90 Basics

  Introductions, Motivation

  Compiler Command Line Invocation

  Fortran 90 Source Form

  Fortran 90 Flow control

  Short Exercise

  Data Declarations, Derived Types

  Array Operation

  Exercise

• Day 2 - F90 Features and a Meaty Exercise

  Dynamic Memory Management

  Functions, Subroutines, Modules

  Short Exercise

  F90 I/O, File Handling

  Brief Mention of Numeric Models

  Review/Summary of Intrinsic Functions

  Exercise

• Day 3 - Think Parallel

  Tutorial / Review of Data Decomposition

  Some Simple Data Distribution Directives

  Short Exercise

  Data Alignment, Mapping

  Forall, Data Parallel Language Extensions

  Exercise

• Day 4 - Advanced Topics in HPF

  Inter-Procedure Interfaces

  Extrinsic Procedures, Local Routines

  Short Exercise

  Review / Summary of HPF Library, Intrinsic Functions

  Generated F77, Library Calls, Underlying Communications

  Exercise

• Day 5 - Real Life

  Debugging HPF code

  Optimizing HPF code

  Exercise

Length: 5 days.