Dear Intel Fortran team, and Steve Lionel,
I am a member of a computational research group and I have been appointed to develop an agent-based model from scratch for some biological processes. I am very much fluent in Fortran, and in love with it, obviously for its efficiency in number-crunching and really nice math and array-handling tools.
However, I seems like C++ is gradually gaining some momentum in the world of HPC and I have heard of some rumors that object-oriented Fortran codes may not be as efficient as OOP in C++. Is this a myth or reality?
Also, since our software is expected to be scalable and well-maintained over the following years and perhaps decades, I wanted to know about Intel's plan for supporting Fortran in future.
If you have any advice or comments on why I should choose or not choose Fortran against C++ for OOP, I'd appreciate it very much.
Can I rely on coarray feature in Fortran for parallelization of the code in future? How would you compare it with MPI? The coarray feature is one of the reasons I'd like to continue with Fortran.
A. K.
