NVIDIA and US National Labs will open source the results. When I was finishing up my time at ORNL, my colleagues were working to add code to push our matrix operations out to CUDA cores in the big ...

In our look at scientific computing and the continued longevity of Fortran in science and engineering circles, one of the recurring themes in the discussion that followed was performance. One of the ...

The IBM 1401 is undeniably a classic computer. One of IBM’s most “affordable” mainframes, it ruled the small business computing world of the 1960’s. Unfortunately, computers aren’t often thought of as ...

Advances in science and engineering still rely on Fortran more than any other language by many important measures. Surprised? You shouldn’t be, although many people who call themselves programmers ...

Fortran is an old programming language, but it specializes in advanced calculations and may still be used in physics departments, supercomputer research institutes, government agencies, etc. as of ...

If you want to understand where we are going with computer architectures and the compilers that drive them, it is instructive to look at how compilers have made the leap from architecture to ...