White Papers
White Papers
Here is a collection of White Papers relating to developing and using Fortran programs
| Why doesn't it work? | Detailed description of Fortran program errors with their symptoms and diagnosis |
| Why Winteracter? | A brief introduction to using Winteracter to add a GUI to an existing DOS program |
| Fortran and Windows | A quick look at the various ways of building Fortran Windows applications |
| Intel Fortran 11.0 and Visual Studio | Using Intel Visual Fortran 11.0 with Visual Studio 2008 |
| Nested Factorization | Nested Factorization algorithm which may be used to approximate large finite difference matrix equations |
| GPU Computing | Is the 'many-core' GPU the next BIG thing for High Performance Computing? |
| Running Fortran on the web | How to interact between a web-page and a Fortran application |
| An Introduction to Vectorization with Intel C++ Compiler (pdf) | How to take advantage of SSE and AVX instructions to speed up your C++ code. |
| A Concise Guide to Parallel Programming Tools for Intel Xeon Processors. (pdf) | How to pick the right programming models and tool that boost application performance. |
| An Introduction to Vectorization with Intel Fortran Compiler (pdf) | How to take advantage of SSE and AVX instructions to speed up your Fortran code. |
| Measure Application Performance Scalability (pdf) |
Will your software performance scale if it is run on a large number of cores? How do you know if your code is or isn’t parallel enough to take advantage of more cores? |
| Vectorization Technical Presentation (50 MB download) | Future-proof your application's performance |
| Intel Studio Editions - Are you using the right Tools | Everyone needs the right tools to do their job properly – and programmers are no exception. |
| A Plain Man's Introduction to Intel VTune Amplifier XE 2011 | Analyse the behaviour of your program |
| Intel Parallel Studio Evaluation Guide | Eliminate Errors and Improve Program Stability |
| Get an Easy Performance Boost with Intel Parallel Studio 2011 |
Often, you can achieve a major performance boost by recompiling a single file with the optimizing compiler in Intel® Parallel Studio 2011. |
| Article by Rob Farber in Dr. Dobb’s Journal. | PGI Portland compilers: June 11th 2012 - more detail on how to use the PGI Accelerator Compilers with OpenACC for C. |
| PGI Accelerator with OpenACC | Learn how to accelerate your Fortran and C applications with minimal programming effort using PGI Accelerator with OpenACC By Michael Wolfe |
| Vectorising code to take advantage of modern CPUs | Article by Michael Croucher - Manchester University |
| The Benefits of Intel (r) VTune Analyzer | Winning article explaining how VTune helped one of our customers. |