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Do you know of any learning opportunities such as internships where one can learn and apply Fortran?
by tejassanap 8y ago
Do you know of any learning opportunities such as internships where one can learn and apply Fortran?
- C1sc0cat 8y agoAt a Guess CERN and places like that
- tejassanap 8y agoThe thing with such hardcore engineering stuff is that there are very few places one can learn them at, but they are also very very cool
- m_mueller 8y agoLook up for jobs in weather agencies, climate research, ocean model research and computational physics.
- tejassanap 8y agoThanks.
- jacquesm 8y agoAnd lots of Finite Element Analysis packages still use Fortran under the hood.
- pge 8y agoalso a lot of computational fluid dynamics modeling (naval, aeronautical, automotive, etc.)
- int_19h 8y agoI've noticed that Fortran comes up a lot when talking to people who do fluid dynamics simulations. Curiously, it often does so in context of Python. One specific example I can remember was a library written in Fortran, with unit tests written in Python.
- m_mueller 8y agoFortran and Python go together very well (they complement each other in just the right ways and there's all the bindings / data structure compatibility with Numpy that you need). Glue code / UI in Python, Numerics in Numpy + homegrown Fortran, that's how I'd implement a numerical model from scratch today.
- septc 8y agoJust out of curiosity, what do you use for calling Fortran from Python (e.g. f2py, ctypes)? Do you have any suggestion about how to combine them together (e.g., for parallel calculations)?
- m_mueller 8y agoSo I haven't yet had the chance to do it myself, but yes I'd look at f2py first and how to integrate it with Numpy.
- nouseforaname 8y agoMaybe universities. My mechanical engineering program taught fortran and had beowulf clusters running what was (presumably) fortran.
- rootbear 8y agoIt's still used at NASA. The NASA Center for Climate Simulation at Goddard does much of their climate work in Fortran.
- rch 8y agoCome to Boulder: https://www.ucar.edu/opportunities/careers https://www.ucar.edu/opportunities/careers https://www.txcorp.com/careers-at-tech-x https://www.txcorp.com/careers-at-tech-x http://radiasoft.net/about/careers/ http://radiasoft.net/about/careers/
- msaharia 8y agoHuh. Don't think I have seen NCAR here before!
- pmulv 8y agoI have a friend who writes modern fortran nearly everyday as an actuarial pension analyst in Manhattan. They hired him out of college having never written a "hello world" script. Hope that helps!