[J3] What is Jeopardy?

[Bill Long]

Fortran has evolved into what is essentially a DSL for HPC.  It is heavily used in areas like computational chemistry and physics, and for weather/climate modeling (which you could argue is basically computational physics/fluid dynamics).    Given the HPC connection, it is used most heavily at sites with supercomputers, like the DOE/DOD labs in the US and national facilities in places like Switzerland and Scotland.   If you work at a DOE lab and have influence there, the best way to help Fortran is to persuade your colleagues to start or continue using Fortran for their work. And maybe  engage in information transfer, such as teaching a class or tutorial (or hire Damian to do that - he’s reputed to be good at this). 

Cheers,
Bill


> On Dec 10, 2020, at 10:49 AM, Ondřej Čertík via J3 <j3 at mailman.j3-fortran.org> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2020, at 6:22 AM, Clune, Thomas L. (GSFC-6101) via J3 wrote:
>> 
>> Last night’s episode had the category “Programming Languages”.   We 
>> should feel slighted.    C,  Python, Java sure.   HTML and Basic, ugh.  
>> But Fortran was not on the list.  
> 
> Fortran is in jeopardy. So I think that's fair.
> 
> If we don't like it, then let's fix it. That's why I joined the committee, because I don't like that the situation is dire and I am doing what I can to help.
> 
> Ondrej

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