Alastair McKinstry
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I’m from Galway, Ireland and computational scientist working for ICHEC, doing climate and Environmental computing.
I do Debian Linux when I can, overlapping work on the Debian Meteorology project and HPC.
Accepted Talks:
Fortran Policy for Debian
Fortran is undergoing a renaissance, driven by new compilers. For many years, gfortran has been the only commpiler in Debian; this is now joined by flang,lfortran and other LLVM-based derivatives.
I am proposing a Debian policy and tools to support multiple Fortran compilers, to enable a package or the full HPC stack to be automatically built with a new compiler. This is needed as libraries and Fortran module files from different compilers may be non-compatible; hence we need to add support to enable multiple Fortran compiler versions.
This is based mainly for HPC / Science package maintainers but also language /compiler developers.