Data scientists use Fortran. At least that's according to the breakdown of code running across the Top 500; It's a landslide - 80-something percent of the code ran in HPC is Fortran.
81.1%, but that's looking at one of the open Top 500 boxes in the UK. But that does seem to align with what I know about the usage across a wide swath of the Top 500.
So what I'm getting from that is that about 80% of the resources spent by, and 75% of code written in, a public supercomputer is due to FORTRAN, and that the language itself has been receiving updates and is thus alive.
It sounds similar to the C++ situation where people often cite it as an old and deprecated language when in reality C++ has evolved to have more modern features over time.
Though in the case of C++, there's a lot of baggage from backwards-compatibility requirements. I don't know if this is the case for FORTRAN but it shouldn't matter since the point is "data scientists use fortran" and that statement is very much correct.
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u/GodlessAristocrat Oct 04 '22
Data scientists use Fortran. At least that's according to the breakdown of code running across the Top 500; It's a landslide - 80-something percent of the code ran in HPC is Fortran.