Re: Need Fortran advice

2011-11-05 Thread James E. Davies
I sometimes need to use gfortran compiler switch -std=legacy for some older codes. Jim. On 05/11/2011, at 3:57 PM, John Schaad wrote: > FORTRAN -- For many years I have helped support, have used, and continue to > use a package of software written mostly in FORTRAN for a DEC VAX Mainframe >

Re: Need Fortran advice

2011-10-31 Thread James E. Davies
I ought not have singled out ifort - there are plenty of good commercial fortran compilers... On 31/10/2011, at 9:11 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 10:05 PM, James E. Davies > wrote: >> gfortran is now very good: >> >> gcc-gfortran.x86_64 : F

Re: Need Fortran advice

2011-10-31 Thread James E. Davies
gfortran is now very good: gcc-gfortran.x86_64 : Fortran support if you want to spend money, ifort (Intel fortran) is what we use at work. gfortran will compile legacy f77 code, as well as f90 and f95 (and f2003?). cheers, jim. On 31/10/2011, at 8:58 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: > Hi

SL6.1 X server newbie help

2011-08-18 Thread James E. Davies
I just installed SL6.1 "Basic Server" - figured I'd yum install the other stuff I wanted later. I typically connect via ssh to this box, I do not want or need a desktop / window manager but I would like to ssh -X and be able to run programs that generate X output. So I installed the X server

Re: Back to Science!!! Sage!!! open source mathematics software

2011-07-03 Thread James E. Davies
How about Fortran vs C? Python vs Perl? Chicken vs Beef? Alien vs Predator? Genuine Help-seekers vs Deliberate Time-wasters? On 02/07/2011, at 11:38 PM, Timmy Siu wrote: > Hi Friends, > How do you rate Maxima and SciLab? Both are open source. :-\ > > Faithfully, > Timmy > > >> Advice to m

Virtualization question

2011-06-29 Thread James E. Davies
Can somebody provide some advice - or point me to some reading - on the following topic? I'd like to start distributing some software as a Linux virtual appliance that can be easily and freely installed by Win & Mac (as well as Linux) users. Some of this code can (in principle) be GPU accelera

SL6 site/spin building

2011-04-27 Thread James E. Davies
First post - please tell me if this is not what list is intended for... I installed CentOS5.6 - but I have a minor problem using usb stick as root dir - so was going to wait for CentOS6 and re-install differently. In the interim I found SL, which I did not know about. If anyone has the time, pl