Advanced Fortran Topics

Monday 24 Nov 2025, 09:30 → Thursday 27 Nov 2025, 17:00 Europe/Berlin

Online (Leibniz Supercomputing Centre)

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

The agenda is as follows:

Day 1 + 2:

• Best Practices
  • global objects and interfaces
  • abstract interfaces
  • 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
  • creation and destruction of objects
  • polymorphic objects and function arguments
  • interacting objects
  • dependency inversion: submodules and plugins
  • parameterized derived types
  • derived-type I/O (tentative/optional)

Day 3

• Interoperability with C
  • mixed language programming patterns
• Recently added language features
• Basics on porting Fortran onto GPU
  • directive based using OpenMP/OpenACC offload
  • do-concurrent GPU-offload
  • others

Day 4

• Coarrays
  • PGAS concepts and coarray basics
  • dynamic entities
  • advanced synchronization
  • collectives, events, teams
  • patterns, performance aspects
  • program termination