Fortran compilers for multi-core chips

beliavsky_at_aol.com
Date: 12/08/04 

Date: 8 Dec 2004 06:07:31 -0800

A Wall Street Journal article (page B8, Dec 8 2004) says that Intel
aims for a tenfold boost in chip performance by 2008 by using dual and
multi-core chips. An article from EWeek is at
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1737050,00.asp .

Will current Windows and Linux Fortran 95 compilers from vendors like
Intel, Absoft, and Lahey/Fujitsu be able to exploit the new chips, or
will one need to buy new versions of them?

Will Fortran programs need to be written differently to maximize speed?
I have heard of terms like OpenMP and MPI but am not knowledgable about
them. What is a good book on small-scale parallel programming for
Fortran programmers?

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