On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 02:32:55PM +0000 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
Vincent Cunniffe thought:
>> My understanding is that it's primarily sparse matrices which Fortran is
> best suited to. Try modelling a 1 million cubed array in C++ with only
> a tiny fraction of the space occupied and see how it likes it ;-)
Which is exactly what we do in Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP). I'd be
inclined to say (without having checked it out) that most (if not all) of
the world's weather forecasting is based on a (number of) FORTRAN
program(s).
Conor
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