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> why not just pony up for the intel fortran I used to work in a government research lab. We mostly used GFortran instead of Intel for political stability rea
by unit91 9y ago
> why not just pony up for the intel fortran
I used to work in a government research lab. We mostly used GFortran instead of Intel for political stability reasons. Your budget can change drastically from year-to-year (even if there's no change at the congressional level) because every dollar has to go through the entire bureaucracy before it makes it to your cubicle. The budget wars are constant at every level in the org pyramid.
GFortran is free, and always will be. Whether we can pony up for Intel is completely unknown 5 or 50 years from now. And a lot of people in the Fortran world are ultimately funded by Uncle Sam.
- walshemj 9y agoso your counting your power bill / cost per gflop when you do your budgeting and exactly how many licences would you need? you'd be building on a server not on everyone's desktop pc right?
- cat199 9y agoNot OP, but In these types of scenarios power/utilities probably come out of someone elses budget with at least one layer of competing bureaucracy walling off anyone from asking that question, let alone investigating it and factoring it into the decision making process..