Nasa runs competition to help make old Fortran code faster

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
> Date: May 4, 2017 at 12:10:42 PM EDT
> To: nnsquad () nnsquad org
> Subject: [ NNSquad ] Nasa runs competition to help make old Fortran code faster
>
>
> Nasa runs competition to help make old Fortran code faster
>
> http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39803425
>
>      [NASA] is running a competition that will share $55,000
>    between the top two people who can make its FUN3D software run
>    up to 10,000 times faster. The FUN3D code is used to model how
>    air flows around simulated aircraft in a supercomputer.  The
>    software was developed in the 1980s and is written in an older
>    computer programming language called Fortran.  "This is the
>    ultimate 'geek' dream assignment," said Doug Rohn, head of
>    Nasa's transformative aeronautics concepts program that makes
>    heavy use of the FUN3D code.
>
> - - -
>
> Don't laugh. There's a lot more of it running out there than most
> people realize. And then there's COBOL ... Admittedly, I don't think
> I've really touched FORTRAN significantly since I was working with the
> original ADVENTURE code a long, long time ago.
>
> --Lauren--
> /mailman/listinfo/nnsquad



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