From J.L.Schonfelder@liverpool.ac.uk Wed Jun 14 17:58:06 1995 Received: from mailhub.liverpool.ac.uk (mail.liv.ac.uk) by dkuug.dk with SMTP id AA27687 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4j for ); Wed, 14 Jun 1995 17:58:06 +0200 Received: from pop.liv.ac.uk by mail.liv.ac.uk with SMTP (PP); Wed, 14 Jun 1995 16:57:10 +0100 Received: from jlspc.liv.ac.uk (jlspc.liv.ac.uk [138.253.102.118]) by pop.liv.ac.uk (8.6.12/8.6.6-ajt-2) with SMTP id QAA16443; Wed, 14 Jun 1995 16:38:16 +0100 Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 16:42:38 OBS From: Lawrie Schonfelder Subject: Re: (SC22WG5.818) Fortran 90 usage statistics To: 'Matthijs van Waveren' Cc: SC22WG5@dkuug.dk Message-Id: Priority: Normal Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 On Tue, 6 Jun 95 15:39:13 METDST 'Matthijs van Waveren' wrote: > From: 'Matthijs van Waveren' > Date: Tue, 6 Jun 95 15:39:13 METDST > Subject: (SC22WG5.818) Fortran 90 usage statistics > To: SC22WG5@dkuug.dk > > Dear all, > > I recently received a question from a Fortran 77 user organisation who is > considering migrating to Fortran 90 or C. The user organisation is the > Mining faculty of the Delft University of Technology. They are wondering if > there exist statistics on Fortran 90 usage in industry and academia. I get > the impression that they would migrate to Fortran 90 if enough other users > would be using it. > > If one of you email recipients has Fortran 90 usage statistics and/or > arguments to help me convince this user organisation to migrate to Fortran > 90, please let me know. > > Yours sincerely, > > Matthijs van Waveren I have not got usage stats on tap at this point but we are migrating PC users to FTN90 the nag/salford compiler from FTN77 the salford f77 system. We have "functionally stabilised" FTN77 and will not develop the service based on it further. On unix we are still in experiment mode. We have had the Nag f90 compiler and libraries available on our sun and sgi systems for a while and have done some limited experimentation with the EPC compiler on both architectures. We intend to mount the SGI compiler on our powerchallenge as soon as it is officialy released and will probably do the same for the CRAY/sunsoft compiler on suns. Unless of course the EPC compiler proves to be the more robust and faster. WE expect to functionaly stabilise the F77 service on all unix platforms before the end of this year. All service training next session is to be in F90/HPF. F77 will wither away quite quickly once the compilers and the support facilities are there (NAG libraries, graphics libraries, debuggers etc.) and this is likely to be during 1995. I hope this helps, We do have a small but active band of users using the nag products but these are not efficient enough to be used for production as distinct from teaching use. -- Dr.J.L.Schonfelder Director, Computing Services Dept. The University of Liverpool, UK e-mail J.L.Schonfelder@liv.ac.uk phone: +44(151)794-3716 fax: +44(151)794-3759