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compile:="fortran/nolist/extend/warning=(nounused,nouninitialized)"
and the rest of the FORTRAN defaults are those specified with V6.3 as installed on VMS1 and VMS2. The problem arises because the default floating value is g_floating (I beleive). If this float value is used, a high performance arithmatic error will occur, and the program will terminate. On page 43 of the ABAQUS VMS Site Guide, as provided by Hibbert, Karlsson, and Sorensen, Inc., it is indicated that on DEC Alphas running OpenVMS, the float value of ieee_float should be used. When this is used, as in the environment file as:
compile="fortran/nolist/float=ieee_float"
the programs execute with no errors. I have tried this on several of the HKS-supplied input files for ABAQUS verification and found this to be the case.
This may need to be changed in the abaqus_dir/site installation subdirectory.
Solution: (from CIS VMS Systems Administrator)
Thanks for reporting this. You are correct in your assessment of the situation. Apparently, the on-line Site Guide is more up-to-date than what I was sent in bound form from HKS. It did not have the Alpha/VMS qualifier in the compiler statement.
I have updated our ABAQUS.ENV file to use the /float=ieee_float qualifier in fortran compiliations.