It's a wrap for our Daresbury DFTB+ School 2026! ⚛️
We had an amazing week of lectures, tutorials and discussions. Thanks to all the tutors and participants for joining, and @cecamEvents , @Psik_Network and CCP9 for the support!
The recorded lectures will be posted, stay tuned!
"The main reason for Fortran's resurrection (ranked #10) is the growing importance of numerical/mathematical computing. [It's] fast, having native mathematical computation support, mature, and free of charge." https://t.co/ohndxH7aBp
Fortran 2023 has been published:
https://t.co/7LOCYiZ4o5
For a summary of changes to the language, see John Reid's slides here: https://t.co/Z6IDYiRUIw.
There will be a DFTB+ related seminar talk at the Theory Department of the Fritz-Haber-Institute (@fhi_theory) this Thursday at 2 pm CEST. You can join via Zoom, if interested. https://t.co/I3aPSag3bn
@jhrmnn@DerkKooi@flokno_phys@MolecularXtal IMO, we are close to the point, where it becomes a real alternative for new stand-alone projects. DFTB+ depends on too many external MPI-parallelized components, so it will have to stay with MPI. (Kind'a 🐔 -🥚 problem)
@DerkKooi@flokno_phys@MolecularXtal Not this year, but I am working on an updated version of my original Fortran course. Fortran 2018 is hard to beat for HPC development: object oriented programming combined with very elegant SIMD parallelism via coarrays https://t.co/Y2cMLgPz7Q
@flokno_phys@DerkKooi@MolecularXtal Don't worry about your age, I've started with CVS... By the way, we teach of course both, IDE and VC (now git), and also testing & documenting & profiling & ... https://t.co/e6Wi0cTsgv
We had a really exciting and inspiring last week at the Daresbury DFTB+ School (https://t.co/Og5kwgLHc2) in Daresbury & Chester. Thanks @cecamEvents, @Psik_Network, @DaresburyLab, enthusiastic participants & tutors! Teaching materials available for public access soon...