# An evaluation of risks associated with relying on Fortran for mission critical codes for the next 15 years

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> [@jkd2022](#):
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> I have a related question. Currently our electronic structure code is CPU only and typically runs on thousands of cores via OpenMP + MPI, usually with over 90% parallelism.

I am excited to reply to this on a new thread 🙂

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