List of All Announcements

October 23, 2009: We have started a blog. Click here or click the "Blog" item at the right-hand end of the menu bar at the top of this page. We hope to post interesting items at least once a week.

June 26, 2009: We have put up a web server that takes a Fortress source file and produces a pdf file:  fortifier. Consider this tool "beta" quality stuff. It's useful for quickly getting hold of rendered versions of whole Fortress source files. For more sophisticated tasks, fortify, fortick, etc., are the way to go.

June 1, 2009: We are interested in seeing the  Lonestar benchmark suite written in Fortress. If you'd like to try your hand at writing an interesting Fortress program, please let us know. We're hoping to use these to help guide our future performance work with the Fortress compiler.

May 9, 2009: We recently ran a tutorial at MIT and have placed slides and exercises on the course Wiki page. A quick Fortress reference card is now available. A tutorial attendee  posted in the Cilk Arts blog.

January 30, 2009: Fortress now requires Java 1.6. This requires configuring Mac OS X to use 1.6 and when building from source you should set up .antrc.

December 12, 2008: Fortress now has Streams, which are used for standard output, error output, and file output. Fortress programs no longer share the interpreter's System.out. /Projects/Community/wiki/StringRestructuring More information ...]

November 12, 2008: The default getter for converting an object to a String is now asString, not toString. More information ...