Overview

This course, partly a PRACE training event, is targeted at scientists who wish to extend their knowledge of Fortran to cover advanced features of the language.

Topics covered include:

Days 1-3:

Best Practices

    global objects and interfaces
    abstract interfaces and the IMPORT statement
    object based programming


Object-Oriented Programming

    type extension, polymorphism and inheritance
    binding of procedures to types and objects
    generic type-bound procedures
    abstract types and deferred bindings


IEEE features and floating point exceptions
Interoperability with C

    mixed language programming patterns


Fortran 2003 I/O extensions

Days 4-5 (PRACE course):

OO Design Patterns: application of object-oriented programming

    creation and destruction of objects
    polymorphic objects and function arguments
    interacting objects
    dependency inversion: submodules and plugins


Coarrays

    PGAS concepts and coarray basics
    dynamic entities
    advanced synchronization
    parallel programming patterns
    recent enhancements: collectives, events, teams, atomic subroutines
    performance aspects of coarray programming

To consolidate the lecture material, each day's approximately 4 hours of lecture are complemented by 3 hours of hands-on sessions. The last 2 days of the course are a PRACE training event.
https://events.prace-ri.eu/event/897/