The transition and adoption to modern programming concepts for scientific computing in Fortran

Authors:
Charles D. Norton;Viktor K. Decyk;Boleslaw K. Szymanski;Henry Gardner
Affiliations:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109-8099, USA;Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109-8099, USA and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1547, USA;Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180-3590, USA;Computer Science, FEIT, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
Venue:
Scientific Programming - Fortran Programming Language and Scientific Programming: 50 Years of Mutual Growth
Year:
2007

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Abstract

This paper describes our experiences in the early exploration of modern concepts introduced in Fortran90 for large-scale scientific programming. We review our early work in expressing object-oriented concepts based on the new Fortran90 constructs - foreign to most programmers at the time - our experimental work in applying them to various applications, the impact on the WG5/J3 standards committees to consider formalizing object-oriented constructs for later versions of Fortran, and work in exploring how other modern programming techniques such as Design Patterns can and have impacted our software development. Applications will be drawn from plasma particle simulation and finite element adaptive mesh refinement for solid earth crustal deformation modeling.