Re: Possible funding of gfortran work

[Andre Vehreschild <vehre@gmx.de>]

Hi Benson,

thanks for the input. I will incorporate it.

Regards,
	Andre

On Thu, 8 Jun 2023 08:34:54 +0300
Benson Muite <benson_muite@emailplus.org> wrote:

> On 6/5/23 13:07, Andre Vehreschild wrote:
> > Hi Benson,
> >
> > thank you for your input. Comments are inline:
> >
> >> Maybe add Quantum Espresso:
> >> https://www.quantum-espresso.org/
> >
> Another code:
> https://github.com/openmopac/mopac
> currently being supported by
> https://molssi.org/
>
> > done
> >
> >> R and Octave may also be good examples of use cases.
> >
> > Mhhh, both are not written in Fortran, right? I don't feel tempted to
> > include other programming languages into the references list. It feels odd
> > to me. Any thoughts, anyone?
> >
> In addition to use of Lapack, many subroutines are written in Fortran.
> They have many users in a variety of sectors.  Path to parallelization
> is unclear, even multicore parallelization will benefit many users.
> People in these projects may be willing to give input if asked.
> >
> >> Some gfortran work has been done as company sponsored in that
> >> individuals using the compiler needed it for company work and could work
> >> on the compiler on company time.  If a large proportion is voluntary and
> >> companies only sponsor small extensions and bug fixes, one might assume
> >> that if the funding is given, once it is finished, the chances of
> >> further work will be very limited.  Maybe one can tie into the GNU
> >> compiler collection as well, emphasizing the longevity of the project
> >> and usefulness of the funding in adding additional capabilities and
> >> cleaning up code contributions. Then indicate that new parts that this
> >> proposal addresses have primarily been voluntary because they are not
> >> yet ready for production use, and this project would make them ready for
> >> production use so that in future maintenance efforts can be made by the
> >> community (both voluntary and sponsored).
> >
> > I have added a paragraph about sponsoring of general gfortran work:
> >
> > GFortran in general stems from a merge of projects that have been supported
> > by academic research, commercial needs and in large parts volunteers.
> > Funding by companies was mostly done by allowing employees to work on
> > features required for the company and donating the code.
> >
> > Is that what you were trying to add?
> >
> That seems good. Maybe something like:
>
> GFortran is a portion of the long lived GCC compiler suite and has
> gotten contributions due to academic research needs, commercial needs
> and volunteer interest.  Industry funding primarily enables employees to
> work on features required by the company, for example to support new
> processors or ensure performance in a critical company code section.
> > Regards,
> > 	Andre
> > --
> > Andre Vehreschild * Email: vehre ad gmx dot de
>


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