Monday January 15, 2007
Fortress - Another feather in Sun's Opensource Cap...
"Goodbye Fortran, Hello Fortress" is what Sun is attempting at right now. Sun recently launched Fortress interpreter as open-source software. Tool intends to execute Fortress programs line by line and is designed to be a replacement for ages-old Fortran. Fortran was born nearly 50 years ago at IBM and is still going strong with high-performance computing tasks.
Most of Fortress implementation is released under very permissive BSD license.
Fortress interpreter requires Java 1.5 (or onwards) to run and Ant 1.6.5 (or onwards) to build.
Fortress will be of great significance for HPC Guys (high-performance computing) eg, Grid. With Fortress, Sun hopes to make life of programmers working with multicore processors easier. Language supports features not present in Fortran such as transactions, implicit parallel computation, powerful compiler optimizations etc.
Posted by prats ( Jan 15 2007, 12:51:48 AM PST ) Permalink Comments [0]
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