FOTRAN RESOURCES
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Availability
UNIX: Fortran is a available in all the University's Unix systems. Both skew3 and WRDS have installed the Sun Workshop compilers (f77 and f90). The DCE/DFS systems run Hewlett Packard's compilers.
A Northwestern University site license makes Sun's Forte 6 Developer available to Unix desktops and Intel workstations (running Solaris as operating system) in the northwestern.edu domain. Forte 6 includes Fortran, C and C++ compilers for Unix workstations; the Intel version does not include Fortran.
Microsoft Windows: There is no version licensed by Kellogg or Northwestern. The GNU Projects "g77" (Fortran 77) is installed with CYGWIN, a UNIX-like environment for Windows, which can be downloaded for free.
Free PGI Fortran offer: Now through 30 June 2011, PGI is offering a single-user node-locked license to PGI Visual Fortran® (PVF®) at no cost. Learn more at http://www.pgroup.com/freepvf.
Description
Fortran (from FORmula TRANslation) is a high-level programming language used mainly in scientific and mathematical computing. The language dates back to 1957; the most used standards are Fortran 77 (1980) and Fortran 90 (1991).
Compiling Fortran programs
Examples and solutions
- Sample programs at Kellogg
- An event study using daily returns from CRSP. The program estimates the market model using OLS ir Scholes and Williams (1977) method; calculates 3 different abnormal returns metrics, written by Mark Trombley, University of Arizona (from the CRSP-L FAQ).
Manuals and vendor documentation
Sun Solaris manuals from the SunWorkshop collection:
- Using SunWorkshop
- Debugging a program with dbx
- Analyzing Program Performance with SunWorkshop
- Sun Performance WorkShop Fortran Overview
- Fortran User's Guide
- Fortran Programming Guide
- Fortran Library Reference
- FORTRAN 77 Language Reference
Additional references from Sun:
HP-UX 10.x Fortran 90 manuals:
HP's online documentation site
Learning Fortran
- Professional Programmer's Guide to Fortran77 by Clive G. Page, University of Leicester, UK (full text book)
- Introduction to Fortran. A reference manual, by Aleksandar Donev, MSU.
- F90 course development, a series of Fortran 90 courses (from a 75 minute seminar to a five-day course), from the University of Liverpool
- Fortran frequently asked questions
Fortran libraries
- The NAG Fortran Library, Mark 19 is available on skew3.
- IMSL has been installed in the Social Science Computing Cluster (SSCC), but as of September 2007, the vendor, Visual Numerics, is still trying to fix some compatibility issues with their release.
Other: