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FortranCon 2021

FortranCon 2021 (September 23-24, 2021), the second international conference dedicated to the Fortran programming language, has concluded. Once again, it was an amazing conference, with lots of great talks, including a fortran-lang minisymposium. This year there were about 160 registered attendees and about 80 people on average on Zoom and Slack at any given time.

Lists of talks

• Alfio Lazzaro Welcome
• Arjen Markus Handling dimensions and units of measure in a program
• Mohd Furquan Some adventures with compile time evaluation
• Alexey Cherkaev Fortran in Hydrometallurgy: Practice and Research
• Leandro Martinez Invited Presentation: A computational chemist perspective on Fortran vs. Julia programming
• Marshall Ward Bit-reproducible methods of dimensional and rotational verification testing
• Jeff Hammond Standard Fortran on GPUs and its utility in quantum chemistry codes
• Damian Rouson Keynote: Fortran at the Intersection
• Ondřej Čertík LFortran: Interactive LLVM-based Fortran Compiler for Modern Architectures
• Alessandro Fanfarillo HIPFort: Present and Future Directions for Portable GPU Programming in Fortran
• Sarah Tipler SPACE: Three Decades of Spacecraft Power Systems Analysis with Fortran
• Sebastian Costamagna SEACAL: Cross Platform Parallel Hybrid Code for Calculations of Ship Motions
• Rohit Goswami f2py: Two Decades Later
• Nicolas Abreu Netto Test automation on a Fortran Legacy Software: the AnaTest framework
• Jeff Hammond The Case for Asynchronous Task Parallelism in Fortran
• Brad Richardson Your Requirements Specification as an Executable Test Suite
• Laurence Kedward The State of Fortran
• Thirumalai Shaktivel Finish AST generation in LFortran
• Gagandeep Singh Supporting Arrays and Allocatables in LFortran
• Rohit Goswami Implementing Fortran Standardese within LFortran
• Nathaniel Shaffer What's new in the Fortran Standard Library?
• Aman Godara Improving Strings Support in Fortran
• Chetan Karwa et al. Linked lists for stdlib
• Sebastian Ehlert Fortran package manager
• Jakub Jelínek Handling Compiler Flags in fpm
• Tiziano Müller Wrap-up

See also

• FortranCon 2021 Website
• FortranCon 2020 [previous post]
• Countdown to Fortran 2023 Release (Is this real? There's no way to know...)

FortranCon 2020

FortranCon 2020 was the first international conference entirely focused on the Fortran programming language. It took place in Zurich, Switzerland, but because of the current pandemic, it was almost entirely virtual. It was a terrific two-day conference with a lot of amazing presentations from people all around the world.

Here is the list of talks:

• Steve Lionel, Keynote: Fortran 2018…and Beyond
• Milan Curcic, Toward a thriving open source Fortran community
• Jeremie Vandenplas, Fortran Standard Library
• Brad Richardson, Fortran Package Manager
• Thomas König, Front-end optimization in gfortran
• Gary Klimowicz, Flang: The LLVM Fortran Front-End
• Ondřej Čertík, LFortran: Interactive LLVM-based Fortran Compiler for Modern Architectures
• Jacob Williams, Copernicus Spacecraft Trajectory Design and Optimization Program
• William Sawyer, Evolving Fortran for Emerging Architectures: Lessons from the ICON-GPU Atmospheric Model
• Christopher Brady, EIS2 - A mathematically rich input file processor for HPC applications
• Erin Hodgess, Using R with High Performance Fortran on a Windows Laptop
• Philipp Engel, Connecting Fortran to the Internet of Things
• Vincent MAGNIN, gtk-fortran: a GTK / Fortran binding
• Lee Taylor, Shroud: generate Fortran wrappers for C and C++ libraries
• Maximilien Ambroise, Designing a Modern C++/Fortran Interface by Example
• Nick Papior, Program flow control using scripting languages
• Luigi Genovese, The Futile project: an embedded DSL to simplify the treatment of low-level operation in large Fortran programs
• Patrick Seewald, Generic Programming Techniques
• Arjen Markus, Experimental Fortran Programming
• Laurence Kedward, Interfacing with OpenCL from Modern Fortran for Highly Parallel Workloads
• Robert Schweppe, Applying context-free grammar to hierarchically organized and variably shaped arrays
• Jordan Ott, A Fortran-Keras Deep Learning Bridge for Scientific Computing
• Darius Markauskas, Code::Blocks: open source, cross platform IDE for Fortran
• Melissa Weber Mendonça, F2PY: Bringing fast code into the future
• Jeff Larkin, Highly Parallel Fortran and OpenACC Directives
• Nicolas Netto, Parallelization of a Legacy Software through Fortran 2018 Standard
• Amir Shahmoradi, ParaMonte: Plain Powerful Parallel Monte Carlo Library

I presented a talk on Copernicus, the spacecraft trajectory design and optimization software that I develop for NASA. We recently completed the 5.0 release of Copernicus, which included some major upgrades and a new GUI. The core of Copernicus, of course, is written in Fortran. Copernicus is being used to design the trajectories that will return humans to the Moon.

Many thanks to the organizers of FortranCon 2020. I hope this is just the first of many FortranCon's to come.

See also

• FortranCon 2020, University of Zurich, 2-4 July 2020.

Update (July 26, 2020): added the missing links