stdlib
prima
Our great sponsors
stdlib | prima | |
---|---|---|
14 | 10 | |
975 | 270 | |
3.8% | 4.8% | |
9.6 | 9.9 | |
2 days ago | 1 day ago | |
Fortran | Fortran | |
MIT License | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License |
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
stdlib
-
SciPy: Interested in adopting PRIMA, but little appetite for more Fortran code
Hopefully, the SciPy community can stay open-minded about modern Fortran libraries.
Modern Fortran is quite different from Fortran 77, while being as powerful, if not more.
In addition, there has been a significant community effort on improving and modernising the legacy packages, the ecosystem, and the language itself.
With projects like LFortran (https://lfortran.org/), fpm (https://github.com/fortran-lang/fpm), and stdlib (https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib), I believe that Fortran will enjoy prosperity again.
-
Have you used Fortran for anything other than scientific programming? How is it, and how does it compare to other languages?
They're currently working on a Fortran standard library and it's pretty far along: https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib
-
Why Fortran?
I also like FPM and the ecosystem. In case anyone is just getting started with Fortran, definitely checkout the Fortran Standard Library project:
https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib
-
return value of get_command_argument() and allocatable 1D array
In general, it is necessary to know the length of a string in Fortran before using it. There is no general string with unspecified strength. Some libraries do provide such an object (e.g. Fortran Standard Library, but it is not available in the standard language. To obtain the length of the string in your example, you could use the length option in get_command_argument as integer :: clen character(len=:), allocatable :: string_b call get_command_argument(2, length=clen) allocate(string_b(clen)) string_b = '' call get_command_argument(2, string_b) write(*,*) string_b deallocate(string_b)
- Boost:Boost
-
A Modern Fortran Scientific Programming Ecosystem
If you need to clear memory in the local scope, you need to deallocate a variable explicitly. Otherwise, all Fortran variables are cleared automatically when they go out of scope. One exception are Fortran pointers (different from C pointers) which are discouraged unless really necessary. We have a discussion for a high-level wrapper for files here: https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib/issues/14. So, it's in scope we just haven't gotten far with the design and implementation.
-
"The State of Fortran" -- accepted for publication in Computing in Science and Engineering
FYPP syntax is ugly, but is the best tool available for now to build the Fortran stdlib. People do not have to use the FYPP version of stdlib. There is also a clean post-processed version of the stdlib completely free of FYPP or any other FPP, which looks great: https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib/tree/stdlib-fpm
-
Cube-root and my dissent into madness
What if we try to evaluate this using standard-compliant Fortran? Interestingly, this is an open issue in the fortran-lang/stdlib project. f90 real(8) function f(x) real(8) :: x f = x**(1d0/3d0) endfunction I know real(8) isn't standard compliant but fixing that for this tiny example would be a headache. Then, compiling with -O3 gets us f_: movsd xmm1, QWORD PTR .LC0[rip] movsd xmm0, QWORD PTR [rdi] jmp pow .LC0: .long 1431655765 .long 1070945621
-
Learning Functional programming. Which languages to learn.
learn Fortran (supports both FP and OO, but when we say Fortran we think FP mostly). And the best way to learn is contributing. You can checkout their GitHub org (Fortran-lang) and you might be astonished to see that you too can make contributions there. But you should be ready to learn and search things on your own as well. They have a discourse group too, if you get stuck somewhere. Good luck. At the moment of writing this post they have a good first issue (Greatest Common Divisor) on their stdlib repo.
-
Fortran Web Framework
I recently started learning Fortran for a lark. It reminds me a lot of R, in some respects. It's clearly a very, very good language for doing the parts of one's job that are very math-centric. But it's equally underwhelming as a general purpose programming language.
Largely, I think, due to gaps in the library ecosystem. But there are other challenges. You can see from the install instructions on the linked page, for example, that Fortran still lacks a package manager.
What's interesting, though, is that that's changing. There are currently serious efforts to give it a "standard" library (https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib) and package manager (https://github.com/fortran-lang/fpm).
And I've been watching the new LFortran compiler (https://lfortran.org) with extreme interest.
prima
-
Nagfor supports half-precision floating-point numbers
1. nagfor Release 7.1(Hanzomon) Build 7149 released on March 5, 2024, fixed all the bugs spotted, but introduced an ICE when compiling PRIMA ( http://www.libprima.net ). The ICE has nothing to do with half-precision real, because it occurs when PRIMA is configured to use single or double precision. It can be reproduced by
```
git clone https://github.com/libprima/prima.git && cd prima && git checkout ec42cb0 && cd fortran/examples/lincoa && make ntest
```
2. nagfor 7.2 released on 6 March, 2024 included neither the ICE nor the fixes for the bugs.
- PRIMA: Solving general nonlinear optimization problems without derivatives
-
What are you rewriting in rust?
My goal is to rewrite this library for derivative-free optimization: https://github.com/libprima/prima
-
SciPy: Interested in adopting PRIMA, but little appetite for more Fortran code
A native port is indeed planned. However, since we are talking about a project of about 10K lines of code, such a port will not be delivered very soon.
In fact, native implementations of PRIMA in Python, MATLAB, C++, Julia, and R will all be done in the future. See https://github.com/libprima/prima#other-languages . But it takes time. PRIMA has been a one-man project since it started three yearss ago. Community help is greatly needed.
Thanks.
-
Optimization Without Using Derivatives: the PRIMA Package, its Fortran Implementation, and Its Inclusion in SciPy - Announcements
GitHub repo of the project: https://github.com/libprima/prima
-
Optimization Without Derivatives: Prima Fortran Version and Inclusion in SciPy
It sounds like this was a difficult task. The motivation to fulfill Prof. Powell's request and help the community of derivative-free optimization users must have been strong. Congratulations on your achievement!
From the GitHub README:
> In the past years, while working on PRIMA, I have spotted a dozen of bugs in reputable Fortran compilers and two bugs in MATLAB. Each of them represents days of bitter debugging, which finally led to the conclusion that it was not a problem in my code but a flaw in the Fortran compilers or in MATLAB. From a very unusual angle, this reflects how intensive the coding has been.
> The bitterness behind this "fun" fact is exactly why I work on PRIMA: I hope that all the frustrations that I have experienced will not happen to any user of Powell's methods anymore. I hope I am the last one in the world to decode a maze of 244 GOTOs in 7939 lines of Fortran 77 code — I have been doing this for three years and I do not want anyone else to do it again.
https://github.com/libprima/prima#a-fun-fact
- Optimization Without Using Derivatives
What are some alternatives?
Fortran-code-on-GitHub - Directory of Fortran codes on GitHub, arranged by topic
solid-docs - Cumulative documentation for SolidJS and related packages.
fpm - Fortran Package Manager (fpm)
pybobyqa - Python-based Derivative-Free Optimization with Bound Constraints
MYSTRAN - MYSTRAN is a general purpose finite element analysis solver
Optimization-Codes-by-ChatGPT - numerical optimization subroutines in Fortran generated by ChatGPT-4
fortran-lang.org - (deprecated) Fortran website
inox2d - Native Rust reimplementation of Inochi2D
neural-fortran - A parallel framework for deep learning
OfficerBreaker - OOXML password remover
pyplot-fortran - For generating plots from Fortran using Python's matplotlib.pyplot 📈
gmusicbrowser - jukebox for large collections of music