(j3.2006) (SC22WG5.4514) WG Convener Report for SC 22 Plenary Meeting, 19-20 September 2011

Wed Aug 10 10:24:18 EDT 2011

In 3.1 you have 2010. Should that be 2011?

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 3:40 AM, John Reid <John.Reid at stfc.ac.uk> wrote:

> Whitlock, Stan wrote:
>
>> A comment on N1874:  you say:
>>
>>        3.5 WORK PROGRAM PRIORITIES
>>
>>        WG5's priority activities this year are the maintenance of the base
>>        Fortran language Standard, ISO/IEC 1539-1:2010, and the development
>> of
>>        a TR on Further Interoperability of Fortran with C. Planning for
>> the
>>        possibility of a TS on Further Coarray Features has commenced. It
>> is
>>        intended that PL22.3 will begin to construct a draft requirements
>>     document during its meeting in October 2011 and a call for suggestions
>>        from the public has been made.
>>
>> It may not be clear that the draft requirements and the call for
>> suggestions are about the Further Coarrays Features TS and may be construed
>> as starting the next 1539 draft "Fortran 2016"??
>>
>>
> You're right. Here is a revised version. We are not supposed to change
> documents
> but it is not yet on the SC22 or WG5 sites.
>
> Cheers,
>
> John.
>
> --
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>                                              ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG5 N1874
>
> WG5 Business Plan and Convener's Report for ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22 2011 Plenary
>
> PERIOD COVERED BY THIS REPORT: 29 July 2010 to 8 August 2011
>
> SUBMITTED BY: John Reid
>
>
> 1.0 MANAGEMENT SUMMARY
>
>
> 1.1 JTC1/SC22/WG5 STATEMENT OF SCOPE
>
> The development and maintenance of ISO/IEC Fortran programming language
> standards.
>
> 1.2 PROJECT REPORT
>
> 1.2.1 COMPLETED PROJECTS
>
> 22.02.01.01 Programming Language Fortran - Part 1: Base language - Revision
>
> The FDIS revision of the base language was sent to the SC22 Secretariat
> on 9 June 2010 and the ballot took place with a due date of 1 September.
> The ballot approved the FDIS with the vote 18-0-15, see
> ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 N4567. The revised standard was published on 6 October
> as ISO/IEC 1539-1:2010. It is known informally as Fortran 2008 because the
> choice of technical content was completed in 2008.
>
> 1.2.2 PROJECTS UNDERWAY
>
> 22.02.01.01 Programming Language Fortran - Part 1: Base language -
> Maintenance
>
> The primary responsibility for maintenance of the base language has been
> delegated to INCITS/PL22.3. More than 80 'interpretations' are under
> consideration, most of which have tentative conclusions that are expected
> soon to be ratified by WG5. It is expected that the first corrigendum to
> Fortran 2008 will be submitted later this year.
>
>
> 22.29113 Type 2 Technical Report on Further Interoperability of Fortran
> with C
>
> Because of the need to give priority to work on the revision of part 1,
> progress on the TR on Further Interoperability of Fortran with C was slow.
> Following the publication of the revision, there has been significant
> activity on this TR, culminating in a PDTR ballot that is underway at the
> time of writing, see ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 N4633. Its due date is 2011-09-20.
> A new schedule for the work was agreed at the WG5 meeting in June 2011,
> involving forwarding the DTR to SC22 in December 2011 and eventual
> publication
> in May 2012. Should extensive revision be needed following the PDTR ballot,
> it may be impossible to keep to this schedule. In this case, a request will
> be made at the Plenary for a one-year extension.
>
>
> 22.02.02 Programming Language Fortran - Part 2: Varying Length Character
> Strings
>
> Features of Fortran 2003 cover almost all the requirements for which Part 2
> was written. However, there are a few functions that are not available in
> Part 1. The convenor is investigating whether a publicly available
> Fortran 2008 module could provide an adequate replacement. WG5 continues to
> have responsibility for maintenance of this part; there has been no
> maintenance activity during the period.
>
>
> 1.2.3 CANCELLED PROJECTS
>
> 22.02.01.05 Type 2 Technical Report on Enhanced Module Facilities
>
> The features of the TR on Enhanced Module Facilities have been incorporated
> in the revision of the base language. It was withdrawn on 2010-10-06.
>
> 22.02.03 Programming Language Fortran - Part 3: Conditional Compilation
>
> There appeared to be very little interest in Part 3 and there has been
> only one implementation (as far as I know). It was withdrawn on 2011-05-10.
>
>
> 1.2.4 CO-OPERATION AND COMPETITION
>
> WG5 cooperates closely with the ANSI INCITS/PL22.3 Fortran Technical
> Committee, to whom it has delegated the technical development of Fortran as
> well as the maintenance of Fortran 2008. There is also contact and or
> liaison with several organisations including
>  OpenMP Architecture Review Board
>  MPI Forum
>  IEEE 754 - Floating point hardware
>  IFIP WG2.5 - Numerical Software
>  UPC Consortium
>  ANSI PL22.11 - C
>  HPF Forum
> with several of the PL22.3 and WG5 members and vendors also being members
> of
> the other organisations. Many of those responsible for the development of
> commercial Fortran compilers are members of PL22.3 and/or WG5.
>
> Of particular note in this period, there has been collaboration with the
> MPI Forum in connection with the TR on further interoperability with C.
>
> Dan Nagle (PL22.3 chairman) has been actively involved with WG23
> (Programming Language Vulnerabilities).
>
> There are no competitive activities.
>
>
> 2.0 PERIOD REVIEW
>
> 2.1 MARKET REQUIREMENTS
>
> Fortran is the language of choice for much scientific, engineering, and
> economic programming, particularly for very large programs that have
> evolved
> over many years. The has been some delay over the implementation of Fortran
> 2003, but Cray and IBM now have full implementations and several other
> vendors
> have implemented most of the features. Some features of Fortran 2008,
> notably
> coarrays, are being implemented.
>
> Most major Fortran compiler vendors are represented either on WG5 or its
> Primary Development Body, INCITS/PL22.3, as are two of the major research
> establishments that rely on Fortran for their scientific computing. In
> addition to vendor-supplied and specific mailing lists, there is an active
> email list and an active usenet newsgroup for users of Fortran, which
> provide valuable feedback from users. All these diverse sources are being
> used to guide the development of the language, both through revisions to
> the
> base language Standard, and through other related standards and technical
> reports.
>
>
> 2.2 ACHIEVEMENTS
>
> The main achievements during the period has been the completion of the
> revision of the base language (see section 1.2.1) and the construction
> of the PDTR for Further Interoperability of Fortran with C (see section
> 1.2.2).
>
>
> 2.3 RESOURCES
>
> As elsewhere in the Standardization world, it is becoming increasingly
> difficult to persuade employers to provide the necessary funding for
> Standards activity. Most of the technical work involved in developing
> Standards and Technical Reports is performed by INCITS/PL22.3 under the
> strategic direction of WG5. All WG5 meetings since 2002 have been joint
> meetings with INCITS/PL22.3 in order to optimize its use of human
> resources.
>
> WG5 itself carries out much of its discussions via email, with an annual
> meeting, usually during the summer, and occasional other meetings at
> critical stages in the development of the base language standard.
>
>
> 3.0 FOCUS FOR NEXT WORK PERIOD
>
> 3.1 DELIVERABLES
>
> It is envisaged that the DTR on Further Interoperability of Fortran with C
> will be forwarded by December 2010.
>
>
> 3.2 STRATEGIES
>
> WG5 operates under a strategic plan described in WG5 Standing Document 4,
> the latest version of which is WG5 N1349. In particular, projects for which
> WG5 is responsible may be handled by other Development Bodies, notably
> ANSI INCITS/PL22.3.
>
>
> 3.3 RISKS
>
> As far as possible, WG5 tries to anticipate technical comments during
> international ballots by holding informal ballots of its members before any
> documents are submitted for ballot. Nevertheless, unexpected technical
> comments can always delay the planned schedule.
>
>
> 3.4 OPPORTUNITIES
>
> WG5 has made extensive use of email for over a decade to speed up technical
> development. Since 1995 most documents have been distributed via an
> official
> file server in the UK; all documents have been distributed in this way
> since
> 1997. An open web site is also used to provide non-technical, and other
> publicly available, information to interested parties.
>
> In addition to speeding up the distribution of documents, the use of
> electronic distribution and communication systems also provides many other
> benefits, such as the ability to rapidly carry out informal ballots of the
> members for various reasons.
>
>
> 3.5 WORK PROGRAM PRIORITIES
>
> WG5's priority activities this year are the maintenance of the base Fortran
> language Standard, ISO/IEC 1539-1:2010, and the development of a TR on
> Further Interoperability of Fortran with C. Planning for the possibility of
> a TS on Further Coarray Features has commenced. It is intended that PL22.3
> will begin to construct a draft requirements document for this TS during
> its
> meeting in October 2011 and a call for suggestions from the public has been
> made.
>
>
> 4. OTHER ITEMS
>
> 4.1 POSSIBLE ACTION REQUESTS AT FORTHCOMING PLENARY
>
> Depending on the comments made in the PDTR ballot, WG5 may request that
> consideration be given to granting a one-year extension for the Technical
> Report on Further Interoperability of Fortran with C.
>
>
> 4.2 PROJECT EDITORS
>
> ISO/IEC 1539-1: Malcolm Cohen, UK
> ISO/IEC 1539-2: John Reid, UK
> TR on Further Interoperability of Fortran with C: Bill Long, USA
>
> 4.3 ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT DISTRIBUTION
>
> WG5: http://www.nag.co.uk/SC22WG5/
> PL22.3: http://www.j3-fortran.org/
>
> 4.4 RECENT MEETINGS
>
> 2009/05/4-8 Las Vegas, USA
> 2010/02/15-19 Las Vegas, USA
> 2011/06/27-07/1 Garching, Germany
>
> 4.5 FUTURE MEETINGS
>
> 2012/06/25-29  Markham, Ontario, Canada
> 2013/06  Delft, Netherlands
> 2014/06 (tentative) London, UK
>
> Note that WG5 normally meets annually, with extra meetings being held
> as/when necessary to process ballot comments or other high priority
> activities that do not accord with the regular meeting schedule.
> WG5's Primary Development Body, INCITS/PL22.3, meets every four months.
> Other work is carried out via email.
>
>
>
>
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