Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nuchat!uhnix1!soma!rick
From: rick@soma.bcm.tmc.edu (Rick Gray)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Scientific computing under Unix
Message-ID: <3352@soma.bcm.tmc.edu>
Date: 22 Mar 88 13:29:31 GMT
References: <5972@nswitgould.OZ> <43200014@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: rick@soma.UUCP (Rick Gray)
Organization: Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tx
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Summary: Masscomp f77 great also

In article <43200014@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu> kai@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>F77 is slow, slow, slow.  If you want fast, fast, fast fortran for scientific
>computing, use Alliant's FX/FORTRAN.  We're talking FAST!  Very VAX/VMS Fortran
>compatible.  Bucks per megaflop, can't be beat.
>
>Patrick Wolfe
>pwolfe@kai.com
>..!{uunet,ihnp4}!uiucuxc!kailand!pwolfe
>
>I speak for myself.

Masscomp's f77 compiler is also very fast.  we've ported a few pretty
large VAX/VMS FORTRAN programs for curve fitting to our Masscomps with
minimal difficulties.  We've also written (neural) circuit simulations
in Masscomp f77 and found it to be very robust-- fast at compiling &
running and a good interface to C system routines.



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Rick Gray				uucp: {rice,shell}!soma!rick
Program in Neuroscience			arpa: rick@soma.neuro.bcm.tmc.edu
Baylor Col. Med., Houston, Tx 77030