Fortran Specialist Group Annual General Meeting 2020

1. Apologies for absence
2. Minutes of the previous AGM (24^th September 2019)
3. Matters arising
4. Chairman's report
5. Treasurer's report
   SG Development Fund report
6. Membership Secretary's report
7. Web Editor's report
8. Election of Officers and Committee members
   (The following is taken from the Fortran SG Constitution:
   The name of any member accepting nomination for election or re-election as an Officer or as a Committee member shall be submitted in writing to the Secretary 7 clear days prior to the date of the AGM by two members of the Group with the written consent of the nominee.
   "In writing" applies equally to email or paper copy.)
9. Future activities for the Group
10. Any other business
11. Date of next meeting

Joint meeting with Computational Physics Group of Institute of Physics

Despite 50 years of efforts to increase portability of Fortran codes via standard conformance, there are still many production codes which rely on non-standard extensions.
This talk will show examples of extensions found in production codes in 2020, explain and illuminate numerous problems caused by using extensions, and demonstrate how all such code can be changed to standard-conforming Fortran (in some cases, standard conforming C). Many fixes are simple and easy to apply, while other solutions demand thorough analysis of the underlying algorithm to be correct.

The talk is in two parts. The first looks at the time delay between the publication of the Fortran 77, 90 and 95 standards and the availability of standard conformant compilers.
The second part of the talk looks at the time delay between the publication of the Fortran 2003, 2008 and 2018 standards and the availability of standard conformant compilers.
Because of the widespread differences in conformance from Fortran 2003 onward we started maintaining tables that documented standard conformance.
There are two generations of tables. The first Generation of tables looks at Fortran 2003 and 2008 conformance. The second looks at Fortran 2008 and 2018 conformance.

It is the 50th anniversary of the Fortran Specialist Group. This talk describes the impetus leading to the formation of the group in 1970 and then briefly reviews group activities in the intervening period.

At the 2019 AGM, there was a motion to officially expand the remit of the group from Fortran to include all matters relating to Scientific & Engineering Computing. This presentation will give more details on this transformation.