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An Agentic Workflow for Legacy HPC Modernization: Converting the Two-Electron-Integral Core of GAMESS
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- Researchers used AI agents to convert 56,448 lines of GAMESS quantum-chemistry code from Fortran 77 to Fortran 2008, achieving bit-for-bit numerical accuracy.
- Why it matters
- Engineers maintaining large legacy scientific codebases should care when facing massive modernization efforts that are routine but too voluminous to do manually.
- Watch out
- The approach relies on having a domain-specific verification oracle like GAMESS's test suite; without such exact validation criteria, safe delegation boundaries become unclear.
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