This course will be delivered as an ONLINE COURSE for remote participation because of the COVID-19 measures enforced by most European governments.

REGISTRATION is strictly NECESSARY since the details to access the online course will be provided to the registered and accepted attendees only.

The workshop will take place online 10:00-12:00 and 13:00-16:00 CEST each day.

Overview

This course is targeted at scientists who wish to extend their knowledge of Fortran to cover advanced features of the language.

Topics covered include (still preliminary)

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



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

The course combines lectures and hands-on sessions.
https://events.prace-ri.eu/event/1039/