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by throwaway19937 1633 days ago
> My guess is that the customer here is asking because of a mandate to prefer open source solutions wherever possible.

I don't think that HPC or the DoE have anything close to such a mandate. My guess is that the request comes from a a user who wants to try compiling their code with gfortran.

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I was thinking of France, which IIRC had such a mandate.