Affiliations: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of
Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109-8099, USA | Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of
Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109-8099, USA and Department of Physics and
Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1547, USA | Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute, Troy, NY 12180-3590, USA | Computer Science, FEIT, Australian National
University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
Abstract: This paper describes our experiences in the early exploration of
modern concepts introduced in Fortran90 for large-scale scientific programming.
We review our early work in expressing object-oriented concepts based on the
new Fortran90 constructs – foreign to most programmers at the time – our
experimental work in applying them to various applications, the impact on the
WG5/J3 standards committees to consider formalizing object-oriented constructs
for later versions of Fortran, and work in exploring how other modern
programming techniques such as Design Patterns can and have impacted our
software development. Applications will be drawn from plasma particle
simulation and finite element adaptive mesh refinement for solid earth crustal
deformation modeling.
