Fortress is a new programming language designed for high-performance computing (HPC) with high programmability.

The Fortress reference interpreter is released under a BSD License. Other software included in the distribution bears various open source licenses. All of these are included in the License File.

Here are some key features of "Project Fortress":

· Implicit parallelism
· Transactions
· Flexible, space-aware, mathematical syntax
· Static checking (but with type inference)
· Definition of large parts of the language in its own libraries