CRPC-TR92444

Title:    Fortran M as a Language for Building
          Earth System Models

Author:   Ian T. Foster

Date:     May 1994

Keywords:  Fortran M; software engineering; parallel
           programming; climate modeling

Abstract:

   Fortran M is a small set of extensions to Fortran 77 that
   supports a modular or object-oriented approach to the development
   of parallel programs.  In this paper, we discuss the use of
   Fortran M as a tool for building earth system models on
   massively parallel computers.  We hypothesize that the use of
   Fortran M has software engineering advantages and outline
   experiments that we are conducting to investigate this
   hypothesis.

Publication History:

   Proceedings of the 5th ECMWF Workshop on Parallel Processing
   in Meteorology, Reading, England, November 1992, in 
   Parallel Supercomputing in Atmospheric Sciences, World
   Scientific, Singapore, 1993, 354-363.