notes@mcgill-vision.UUCP (01/20/86)
In trying to decide whether or not to use VMS or Ultrix on one of our new machines (a MicroVAX II), the politics has come down to the decision that if we can get a good FORTRAN compiler to run under Ultrix, we will go with that, otherwise it is VMS. Now, for reasons of systems management (I don't want to get into religious debates over the relative virtues of VMS and Unix) most of the programmers and system managers in the lab would like to continue with Unix, so... I'm looking for pointers, testimonials, addresses and basically recommendations from anyone out there who might have gone through this before and has something to recommend. As can probably be guessed from this, f77 is NOT a viable option. We are looking for something that produces EFFICIENT number-crunching code, and is hopefully compatible with FORTRAN IV, and, of course, it must run on VAXen. Please MAIL me any responses. Of course, if there is sufficient interest, I will post a summary to the net. Lee Iverson utcsri!mcgill-vision!leei Mcgill University, Montreal Computer Vision and Robotics Lab