Minutes of the Meeting of BCS Fortran Specialist Group held at

                     7 Mansfield Mews, 16th September 1993

Present:      Mike Nunn          CCTA

              Tim Bartle         Salford Software

              Chris Lazou        HiPerCom Consultants

              Martin Counihan    Southampton University

              John Young         PE - MOD

1.   WELCOME TO MEETING

The Chairman, Chris Lazou, welcomed everyone to the meeting and

expressed disappointment that no speaker could be found. This

is partly due to the secretarial difficulties the group is

experiencing.

As we were not able to get a speaker the meeting proceeded with

the afternoon FSG business agenda.

2.   APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE

The following sent their apologies: Ted Golton, Miles Ellis,

David Harris.

3.   MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF 20.5.93[was 3.9.92 in distributed minutes]

The minutes were accepted as a true record with a number of

minor corrections.

1..... apologies from John Young

2..... item 5.. The Chairman welcomed every one ...

3..... item 6.. to pay their £10 membership fee by_a deadline..

4..... item 9.. acom.. should read alphacomp...

5..... item 11.. comit.. should read commit.

4.   MATTERS ARISING

4.1  David Harris has accepted the secretarial offer, but for

     work reasons he is unable to make Thursday meetings. A

     decision was made to move the next meeting to Tuesday 23rd

     November to enable David to attend.

4.2  No action was taken about the Cambridge Intelligence offer

     to pay for an advertisement of FSG in their directory. The

     dead line has now passed.

5.   TALKS FOR FUTURE MEETINGS

     After some discussion the following suggestions were made.

5.1  High Performance Fortran (HPF)

5.2  ESPRIT/Rubbia Report, SERC etc. type of initiatives.

5.3  Teaching of Fortran - to what extent this is happening in

     Universities and where does it fit in their courses.

5.4  Cray Fortran 90 and HPF for their Parallel system.

5.5  NAG or Salford Fortran 90.

Other suggestions are welcomed and should be send to Chris

Lazou or any of the other FSG Officers.

6.   FORTRAN NEWSLETTER & ARTICLES

6.1  John Bruce offered to help with the printing of a Fortran

     newsletter as part of his interest in Fortran FSG (he was

     for many years Scottish FSG representative), and also as

     part of his new role as BCS regional Officer in Scotland.

     The decision was for John to talk to Miles Ellis. The

     meeting felt that there were insufficient resources

     available for a regular high quality newsletter, (which

     people would be prepared to pay for), at present. The

     alternative of inserting articles in trade magazines and

     the revamped BCS bulletin should be pursued more actively.

7.   AOB

     Chris Lazou reported that the date for the one day HPF

     meeting has not been fixed yet. The latest plan is for

     Terry Mawby from RAL to come up with a proposal to have it

     at RAL. The meeting is expected to be held next spring.

     BCSFSG will be involved.

8.   DATE & PLACE OF NEXT MEETING

     The next meeting will take place on Tuesday 23rd November

     1993, at 7 Mansfield Mews, with Coffee at 10.30 am. Cray

     Research will be asked to present their High Performance

     Fortran and their new Massively Parallel Machine, the Cray

     T3D/MPP. We need a large attendance.