[Beowulf] NCSU and FORTRAN

[Clements, Brent M (SAIC)]

If she's a student, she can download the intel fortran compilers(I'm
talking about the commandline compilers, not the visual) for free. They
have a number of dev libs that are useful too. 

I've had grad students and profs in the past get good results using
Matlab, intel and the intel MKL.

Good Luck


 

-----Original Message-----
From: beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org [mailto:beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org]
On Behalf Of Geoff Jacobs
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 1:38 PM
To: Wallace Pitts
Cc: beowulf at beowulf.org
Subject: Re: [Beowulf] NCSU and FORTRAN

Wallace Pitts wrote:
> Robert;
> 
> My wife is a biomathematics student at NCSU.  She is currently working

> on a Markov chain simulation using MATLAB.  The goal is to use some 
> sort of search routine to find a set of transition matrix parameters 
> that minimize the sum of squares.  The problem simulated say 10,000 
> molecules for say 400 states.  The search process is slow as 
> mollassesb (we use routines in the optimization toolbox as well as the

> Genetic algorithm and direct search toolbox).
>
> I used FORTRAN in a former life, and still have a compiler or 2.  In 
> addition I have several optimization routines lifted  from 
> "Optimization with FORTRAN.
> 
> Any suggestions as to compilers (have g77).
gfortran is a vast improvement on g77. On the commercial front, all my
experience is with the stuff from Portland Group, which is good.

> I have looked at the
> propaganda on Intel's website, and they claim that their Visual 
> FORTRAN will handle multi core processors.
Do they mean that they support OpenMP? This is hardly remarkable in a
commercial product.

> Regards,
> 
> Wallace Pitts.

--
Geoffrey D. Jacobs

Go to the Chinese Restaurant,
Order the Special
_______________________________________________
Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org To change your subscription
(digest mode or unsubscribe) visit
http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf