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NAG Fortran Modernization Workshop
Thursday, 7. June 2018 - Friday, 8. June 2018
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- Please find the workshop slides here.
- NAG Library introduction
- Camfort introduction
- Exercises
- Solutions
Introduction
This two day practical hands-on workshop is aimed at Fortran programmers who want to write modern code, or to modernize existing codes, to make it more readable and maintainable by encouraging good software engineering practices. This workshop will also present how to integrate tools and techniques for Fortran codes to help you develop sustainable software for your scientific and academic research particularly in a collaborative environment. Overall, the aim is to make you a better and more productive computational scientist by improving your applied computer science skills that are directly relevant to computational science.
Registration
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Topics will include:
- Modern Fortran standards and how to write optimized and efficient Fortran;
- NetCDF and HDF5 scientific file formats for data sharing in Fortran;
- GNU Automake to automate the build process;
- pFUnit unit testing framework for testing Fortran codes;
- Fortran Documenter tool for Fortran code documentation;
- Git version control for collaborative code development;
- In-situ visualisation using PLplot in Fortran;
- IEEE Floating Point Exception Handling;
- Software verification and portability using the NAG Fortran Compiler;
- Fortran interoperability with C, Python and R;
- Introduction to parallelism for Fortran;
- Fortran code verification using the CamFort tool;
- Introduction to the NAG Fortran library.
Participants
The workshop will be run completely free of charge.
Participants will have to bring their laptop and will log into a fully configured Linux server (using SSH) for the exercises. If your laptop is running Windows you can use MobaXterm (external link), on Linux/MacOS no additional Software is needed.
All other material will be provided. Basic knowledge of Fortran (either 77 or 90+) is required. The presentations will be given in English.
Supplementary documentation
Below is some supplementary documentation for the workshop (external links)
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Please contact wadud.miah@nag.co.uk (link sends e-mail) if you are interested in hosting this workshop or if you have further queries regarding the course.
Travel Information
Please make your own hotel reservation. You may find a list of hotels in Aachen on the web pages of Aachen Tourist Service. We recommend that you try to book a room at the Novotel Aachen City, Mercure am Graben or Aachen Best Western Regence hotels. These are nice hotels with reasonable prices within walking distance (20-30 minutes, see city map) from the IT Center through the old city of Aachen. An alternative is the IBIS Aachen Marschiertor hotel, located close to the main station, which is convenient if you are traveling by train and also prefer to commute to the IT Center by train (4 trains per hour, 2 stops).
Most trains between Aachen and Düsseldorf stop at station Aachen West, which is 10 minutes walk away from the IT Center.
From the bus stop and the train station just walk up Seffenter Weg. The first building on the left side at the junction with Kopernikusstraße is the IT Center of RWTH Aachen University. The event will take place in the extension building located at Kopernikusstraße 6.
Contact
Paul Kapinos
Tel.: +49 (241) 80-24915
Fax/UMS: +49 (241) 80-624915
E-mail: hpcevent@itc.rwth-aachen.de