[PLUG] Brain the size of a planet

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Wed May 4 14:37:45 UTC 2005


On Wed, 4 May 2005, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

> Bah! As a recovering FORTRAN programmer, I can only say that what
> high-performance computing exactly *doesn't* need is another language!

Ed,

   Much as we might wish for Fortran to go away, it's still alive and well in
the ecological modeling world. A very powerful basin model (that integrates
very well with GRASS) is the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) created
and under continual development by the USDA's Ag. Research Station in Temple,
TX. SWAT is one of the few EPA-approved basin models that does hydrology,
erosion, sediment transport and all sorts of other useful stuff. And, it's
still written in Fortran.

   A lot of the US Geological Survey code is still Fortran (and still without
comments) and so are geodetic models.

   They all build nicely with gcc.

Rich

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