When Jim Keller talks about compute engines, you listen. And when Keller name drops a programming language and AI runtime environment, as he did in a recent interview with us, you do a little research ...

Advances in science and engineering still rely on Fortran more than any other language by many important measures. Surprised? You shouldn’t be, although many people who call themselves programmers ...

Today The Portland Group announced PGI Visual Fortran for Visual Studio 2010. “With this latest release of PVF, PGI Fortran compilers and tools for multi-core processors and GPUs are available through ...

Sun Microsystems took a new open-source step this week, enlisting the outside world's help in an attempt to create a brand-new programming language called Fortress. On Tuesday, the company quietly ...

I love my mac but being a FORTRAN programmer it is getting very tempting to switch. Why? For one, all access to AltiVec is in C. I really don't want to have to call C from my legacy FORTRAN programs ...