Fortran for Scientific Computing

This course is dedicated to scientists and students to learn (sequential) programming of scientific applications with Fortran. The course teaches the newest Fortran standards, illustrated during hands-on sessions which will allow users to immediately test and understand the language constructs. The course is taught by Uwe Küster, one of the main experts in Germany on the Fortran Standard, who will share with the participants his vast repertoire of exercises and examples.This workshop provides scientific training in Computational Science from beginners' to advanced level, and in addition, the scientific exchange of the participants among themselves and with the instructors.

Prerequisites:

• Familiarity with Linux and Linux editors is recommended.
• Basics/principles of programming (in any language).
• Basic mathematics (integration and differentiation)

Content levels:

• Basic: 13 hours
• Intermediate: 18 hours
• Advanced: 2 hours

Learn more about course curricula and content levels.

Instructors

Uwe Küster (former HLRS staff member and one of the main experts in Germany on the Fortran Standard), Lorenzo Zanon and Ralf Schneider (HLRS).

Agenda

Topics of this course include:

• Fortran syntax overview
  • Basics
  • Program units, modules, procedures
  • Dynamic data
  • Input and Output
• Object orientation
• Compilers for Fortran and their usage
• Performance optimization of serial code
• Features of the most recent Fortran standards

Please find the preliminary program of the course here (May 2024 hybrid course). Notice that the content of day 5 has significantly changed since December 2024.
All times CET.

Handout

Registered participants will get a pdf of the slides and a link to the exercises.

Literature and Textbooks

Michael Metcalf, John Reid, Malcom Cohen, Reinhold Bader: Modern Fortran explained (ISBN: 978-0-19-887658-8).

Fees

• 40 Euro: Students without master’s degree or equivalent
• 90 Euro: PhD students or employees at a German university or public research institute
• 180 Euro: PhD students or employees at a university or public research institute in an EU, EU-associated or PRACE country other than Germany
• 360 Euro: PhD students or employees at a university or public research institute outside of EU, EU-associated or PRACE countries
• 960 Euro: Other participants, e.g., from industry, other public service providers, or government

Link to the EU and EU-associated (Horizon Europe), and PRACE countries.

Our course fees include coffee breaks (in classroom courses).

Hybrid course

This course will be hybrid, i.e. it will take place at HLRS on-site but it will also be possible to attend online. Participants, online as well as on-site, have to be aware and agree that they might appear in the live video stream taken by a camera in the back of the lecture room or by a webcam on laptops. The live stream will not be saved. We strongly recommend to attend this course on-site since on-site attendance is much more effective and efficient in our experience. Therefore we might give priority to on-site over online participants during registration.
 

HLRS concept for on-site courses

Besides the content of the training itself, an important aspect of this event is the scientific exchange among the participants. We try to facilitate such communication by

• a social event on the evening of the first course day,
• offering common coffee and lunch breaks and
• working together in groups of two during the exercises.

Lunch Breaks

We plan to have lunch in the unversity's canteen (Mensa Stuttgart-Vaihingen, have a look at their menu online). Two other near possibilities for lunch are on all days:

• A food truck from 11:00-14:00 in Allmandring 35, approximately 300 m from HLRS,
• Bakery Sehne, near bus stop "Im Lauchhau", approximately 400 m from HLRS.

We will update this information if opening times etc. change and inform you more precisely before the course starts.

Registration

Register here.
We encourage you to register to the waiting list if the course is full. Places might become available.