I have a friend who is a physics major, one of the primary reasons he was learning to program was to use MPI & OpenMP languages, and presuming fortan has a very

I have a friend who is a physics major, one of the primary reasons he was learning to program was to use MPI & OpenMP languages, and presuming fortan has a very high performance / robust compiler for using MPI, this would probably be the soul reason it's used for large super computer & cluster computations because it's designed for distributed computation. I think this guy has the best answer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2266643/for-what-are-fortran-cobol-and-co-used-today/2480052#2480052 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2266643/for-what-are-fort...