List of Fortran software and tools

This is a list of Fortran software and tools, including IDEs, compilers, libraries, debugging tools, numerical and scientific computing tools, and related projects.

Fortran compilers

• Absoft Pro Fortran — Absoft Pro Fortran is discontinued and ran on Linux and macOS
• AOCC — from AMD
• Classic Flang — part of the LLVM Project
• LLVM Flang — part of the LLVM Project
• Fortran 77 — Fortran 77 was developed by Digital Equipment Corporation, it is discontinued.
• G95 – portable open-source Fortran 95 compiler
• GCC (GNU Fortran)
• PGI compilers – NVIDIA developed compilers after acquiring The Portland Group
• IBM XL Fortran — IBM XL Fortran is current and runs on Linux (Power/AIX) and integrates with Eclipse
• Intel Fortran Compiler – part of Intel OneAPI HPC toolkit
• LFortran — LFortran is current, cross-platform, and has IDE support.
• MinGW – cross compiler and forked into Mingw-w64
• nAG Fortran Compiler - from nAG
• Open64 — Open64 is an open-source compiler that has been terminated and ran on Linux
• Open Watcom — Open Watcom is current, runs on MS-DOS and OS/2, and has IDE support.
• Oracle Fortran — Oracle Fortran is discontinued, ran on Linux and Solaris.
• ROSE — source-to-source compiler framework developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• Silverfrost FTN95 — FTN95 from Silverfrost is current, runs on Windows, and has IDE support.

Integrated development environments (IDEs) and editors

• Code::Blocks — supports Fortran with plugins
• Eclipse IDE — with Fortran support via Photran
• Emacs — extensible text editor with built-in Fortran modes and support for modern tooling via language servers
• Geany — lightweight cross-platform IDE based on GTK
• IntelliJ IDEA — cross-platform IDE by JetBrains with Fortran pluggin
• KDevelop — KDE-based IDE
• NetBeans — Apache software foundation IDE with Fortran configuration
• OpenWatcom — IDE and compiler suite for C, C++, and Fortran
• Simply Fortran — standalone Fortran IDE for Windows, Linux, and macOS
• Vim — modal text editor with native Fortran syntax support and extensive plugin-based development features
• Visual Studio — with Intel Fortran integration
• Visual Studio Code — supports Fortran via extensions

Mathematical libraries

• ARPACK
• Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software
• BLAS
• BLIS
• EISPACK
• Harwell Subroutine Library
• IMSL Numerical Libraries
• LAPACK
• Librsb
• LINPACK
• Lis
• Math Kernel Library
• MINPACK
• NAG Fortran Library
• Netlib
• ODEPACK
• PETSc
• pFUnit
• QUADPACK
• SLATEC
• SOFA

Scientific libraries

• ABINIT — software suite to calculate optical, mechanical, vibrational, and other observable properties of materials
• Cantera — chemical kinetics, thermodynamics, and transport tool suite
• CERN Program Library — collection of Fortran libraries for physics applications from CERN
• CP2K — quantum chemistry and solid-state physics software package for atomistic simulations
• Dalton — molecular electronic structure program
• FFTPACK — subroutines for the fast Fourier transform
• Kinetic PreProcessor – open-source software tool used in atmospheric chemistry
• — Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics
• Nek5000 — MPI parallel higher-order spectral element CFD solver
• NWChem — open-source high-performance computational chemistry software
• Octopus — real-space Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory code
• MODTRAN – model atmospheric propagation of electromagnetic radiation
• MOLCAS — quantum chemistry software package for multiconfigurational electronic structure calculations
• NOVAS – software library for astrometry-related numerical computations
• Physics Analysis Workstation – data analysis and graphical presentation in high-energy physics
• Quantum ESPRESSO — integrated suite for electronic-structure calculations and materials modeling
• SIESTA — first-principles materials simulation code using density functional theory
• Tinker — software tools for molecular design

Debugging and performance tools

• GDB — GNU Debugger with Fortran support
• Valgrind — memory debugging and profiling tool
• VTune Profiler — performance analysis tool
• Allinea Forge — debugger and profiler for HPC applications

Build and package management

• Autotools — build system supporting Fortran projects
• CMake — cross-platform build system supporting Fortran
• Make — build automation tool
• Spack — package manager for HPC software including Fortran libraries

Machine learning and AI libraries

• Athena
• Fiats (Functional Inference And Training for Surrogates)
• FNN (Fortran Neural Network)
• FortNN
• Fortran-TF-lib (Fortran interface to TensorFlow)
• FTorch (Fortran interface to PyTorch)
• MlFortran
• RoseNNa

Parallel and high-performance computing tools

• MPI Fortran bindings — standard interface for distributed-memory parallelism
• OpenMP — shared-memory parallel programming support through compiler directives
• Coarray Fortran — parallel programming model introduced in Fortran 2008
• ScaLAPACK — parallel linear algebra package built on top of LAPACK

Testing frameworks

• FUnit — open-source unit testing framework developed at NASA’s Langley Research Center, for Fortran 90, 95, and 2003.
• pFUnit — unit testing framework for Fortran, modeled after JUnit

Documentation and code analysis tools

• FORD — automatic documentation generator for modern Fortran projects
• SQuORE — software quality and management platform with code analysis support
• Understand — static analysis and code comprehension tool for large Fortran projects

See also

• Comparison of programming languages
• Fortran programming language on Wikibooks
• High-performance computing
• List of Fortran books
• Lists of programming software development tools by language
• Numerical analysis

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