Fortran_details.md

Skill Set #1: Beginner Usage

• Syntax and program format:
  • Comments
  • Declaring variables and arrays
  • Arithmetic operations
  • DO and DO WHILE loops
  • IF statements
  • Functions
  • Subroutines
  • Input/Output (I/O) routines
• Compiling and running a program:
  • Makefile
• Using libraries

Link to training

Skill Set #2: Advanced Usage

• Advanced array usage
  • Operations on entire arrays
  • Array sections
  • Querying information about arrays (size, etc)
  • WHERE and mask operations
• CASE statements
• INTENT statements
• OPTIONAL arguments
• INTERFACES
• MODULES
  • PRIVATE and PUBLIC objects
• Derived types
• Defining and overloading operators
• Allocating and deallocating dynamic memory
• POINTERs and ALLOCATABLE arrays
• Linked list

Link to the training

Skill Set #3: Optimisation

• Compiler optimisation
• Code optimisation

Skill Set #4: Parallelisation

• OpenMP parallel DO loops
• MPI
  • Running MPI programs on NCI
  • Writing code with MPI

Skill Set #5: Debugging

• Debugging
  • Skills and Tools
    • Using the stack trace
    • Using run-time checks
  • Debuggers
    • Allinea-DDT
    • Totalview