List of Fortran software and tools

This is a list of software and programming tools for the Fortran programming language, including IDEs, compilers, libraries, debugging tools, numerical and scientific computing tools, and related projects.

Fortran compilers

Main article: List of Fortran compilers

• Absoft Pro Fortran — Absoft Pro Fortran is discontinued and ran on Linux and macOS
• AOCC — from AMD
• Classic Flang — part of the LLVM Project
• LLVM Flang — part of the LLVM Project
• Fortran 77 — Fortran 77 was developed by Digital Equipment Corporation, it is discontinued.
• G95 – portable open-source Fortran 95 compiler
• GCC (GNU Fortran)
• PGI compilers – NVIDIA developed compilers after aquiring The Portland Group
• IBM XL Fortran — IBM XL Fortran is current and runs on Linux (Power/AIX) and integrates with Eclipse
• Intel Fortran Compiler – part of Intel OneAPI HPC toolkit
• LFortran — LFortran is current, cross-platform, and has IDE support.
• MinGW – cross compiler and forked into Mingw-w64
• Open64 — Open64 is an open-source compiler that has been terminated and ran on Linux
• Open Watcom — Open Watcom is current, runs on DOS and OS/2, and has IDE support.
• Oracle Fortran — Oracle Fortran is discontinued, ran on Linux and Solaris.
• ROSE — source-to-source compiler framework developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• Silverfrost FTN95 — FTN95 from Silverfrost is current, runs on Windows, and has IDE support. ^[1]

Integrated development environments (IDEs) and editors

See also: Comparison of Fortran IDEs

• Code::Blocks — supports Fortran with plugins ^[2]
• Eclipse IDE — with Fortran support via Photran ^[3]
• Geany — lightweight cross-platform IDE based on GTK
• IntelliJ IDEA — cross-platform IDE by JetBrains with Fortran pluggin ^[4]
• KDevelop — KDE-based IDE
• NetBeans — Apache software foundation IDE with Fortran configuration ^[5]
• OpenWatcom — IDE and compiler suite for C, C++, and Fortran
• Simply Fortran — standalone Fortran IDE for Windows, Linux, and macOS
• Visual Studio — with Intel Fortran integration
• Visual Studio Code — supports Fortran via extensions ^[6]

Mathematical libraries

See also: List of numerical libraries for Fortran

• ARPACK
• Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software
• BLAS
• BLIS
• EISPACK
• Harwell Subroutine Library
• IMSL Numerical Libraries
• LAPACK
• Librsb
• LINPACK
• Lis
• Math Kernel Library
• MINPACK
• NAG Fortran Library
• Netlib
• PETSc
• pFUnit
• QUADPACK
• SLATEC
• SLICOT
• SOFA ^[7]

Scientific libraries

• ABINIT — software suite to calculate optical, mechanical, vibrational, and other observable properties of materials
• Cantera — chemical kinetics, thermodynamics, and transport tool suite
• CERN Program Library — collection of Fortran libraries for physics applications from CERN
• CP2K — quantum chemistry and solid-state physics software package for atomistic simulations
• Dalton — molecular electronic structure program
• Kinetic PreProcessor – open-source software tool used in atmospheric chemistry
• MESA — Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics
• Nek5000 — MPI parallel higher-order spectral element CFD solver
• NWChem — open-source high-performance computational chemistry software
• Octopus — real-space Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory code
• MODTRAN – model atmospheric propagation of electromagnetic radiation
• MOLCAS — quantum chemistry software package for multiconfigurational electronic structure calculations
• NOVAS – software library for astrometry-related numerical computations
• Physics Analysis Workstation – data analysis and graphical presentation in high-energy physics
• Quantum ESPRESSO — integrated suite for electronic-structure calculations and materials modeling
• siesta — first-principles materials simulation code using density functional theory
• Tinker — software tools for molecular design ^[8]

Debugging and performance tools

• GDB — GNU Debugger with Fortran support
• Valgrind — memory debugging and profiling tool
• VTune Profiler — performance analysis tool
• Allinea Forge — debugger and profiler for HPC applications ^[9]

Build and package management

• Autotools — build system supporting Fortran projects
• CMake — cross-platform build system supporting Fortran
• Make — build automation tool
• Spack — package manager for HPC software including Fortran libraries ^[10]

Machine learning and AI libraries

• Athena ^[11]
• Fiats (Functional Inference And Training for Surrogates) ^[12]
• FNN (Fortran Neural Network) ^[13]
• FortNN ^[14]
• Fortran-TF-lib (Fortran interface to TensorFlow) ^[15]
• FTorch (Fortran interface to PyTorch) ^[16]
• MlFortran ^[17]
• RoseNNa ^[18]

Parallel and high-performance computing tools

See also: High Performance Fortran

• MPI Fortran bindings — standard interface for distributed-memory parallelism
• OpenMP — shared-memory parallel programming support through compiler directives ^[19]
• Coarray Fortran — parallel programming model introduced in Fortran 2008 ^[20]
• ScaLAPACK — parallel linear algebra package built on top of LAPACK ^[21]

Testing frameworks

See also: List of unit testing frameworks for Fortran

• FUnit — open-source unit testing framework developed at NASA’s Langley Research Center, for Fortran 90, 95, and 2003. ^[22]
• pFUnit — unit testing framework for Fortran, modeled after JUnit

Documentation and code analysis tools

• FORD — automatic documentation generator for modern Fortran projects
• SQuORE — software quality and management platform with code analysis support ^[23]
• Understand — static analysis and code comprehension tool for large Fortran projects ^[24]

See also

• Comparison of programming languages
• High-performance computing
• Numerical analysis
• List of compilers

External links

• Fortran-lang.org — community and resources
• GNU Fortran official site
• Intel Fortran Compiler
• NAG Fortran Compiler

References

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2. https://cbfortran.sourceforge.io/
3. https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/tools.photran
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9. https://www.osc.edu/sites/default/files/documentation/allinea_manual.pdf
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11. "Athena". GitHub.
12. "Fiats". GitHub. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
13. "FNN". GitHub.
14. "FortNN". GitHub.
15. "fortran-tf-lib". GitHub. Cambridge ICCS.
16. "FTorch". GitHub. Cambridge ICCS.
17. "MlFortran". GitHub.
18. Bati, Ajay; Bryngelson, Spencer H. (2024). "RoseNNa: A performant, portable library for neural network inference with application to computational fluid dynamics". Computer Physics Communications. 296 109052. arXiv: 2307.16322 . Bibcode:2024CoPhC.29609052B. doi:10.1016/j.cpc.2023.109052.
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20. "Parallel programming with Fortran 2008 and 2018 coarrays".
21. "ScaLAPACK Users' Guide".
22. "Fortran Unit Testing Framework (fUnit v1.0) (LAR-17081-1)". NASA Software Catalog. Retrieved 2024-03-31.
23. "Squore Architecture [Administration] · Squore 25.0.0".
24. https://docs.scitools.com/manuals/pdf/understand.pdf

• Fortran-lang.org — community resources