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Originally Posted by CurtEgerer
Interesting. I would've thought that had been out of use for decades!
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I'm sure it isn't exclusive, but Fortran is still used in the US DOE supercomputers - for decades hanging around near or atop the "fastest computer" rankings.
I am simple country metallurgist so the closest I ever got was to beta test/break one of the CFD codes on the, then fastest, "Blue Mountain" computer in 1998(?). I guess it was novel in that it could play with other multiphysics codes and run on tens of thousands of processing cores. Fancy it was, but I can break anything through simple incompetence...
We have Stanislaw Ulam's slide rule, used in his foundational work in developing the H-bomb, in our museum. I'll grab a pic of the display when I'm working there on Thursday.