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Re:Fortran by reacharavindh on Monday August 28, 2023 @05:54AM (#37291820)
That was my first thought as well. I’ve had researchers running an in-house built Fortran program in the field of genetics on our HPC clusters, such that they’d run their task as 1000s of jobs in the cluster each operating on a small segment of data instead of a single program making use of as many cores available in the system. Perhaps, newer Fortran would’ve done it, but the old software was still reliant on old Fortran.
Re:Fortran by pletnes on Monday August 28, 2023 @06:26AM (#37292028)
New and old Fortran is incredibly compatible. Chances are you can rewrite or refactor to add new features directly into or along the old code. If you know what you’re doing.