[geeks] Daily Dose of Unix

Eric Dittman dittman at dittman.net
Thu Jan 30 15:13:51 CST 2003


> > Just curious how Irix is best suited for the scientific
> > community? Which areas of science and which applications?
> 
>    Their FORTRAN compiler technology is very, very good.  They also 
> inherited a lot of scientific computing software and know-how when they 
> bought Cray.  In addition, their parallel systems scale incredibly well.

A good FORTRAN is very good.  The VMS FORTRAN compiler generates
good code, too.  I still like FORTRAN.
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