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Several optimization alternatives are presented for legacy Fortran 77 scientific programs, each one with a quantitative characterization in terms of performance gain. Initially, sequential optimization is focused on the analysis of Level 3 BLAS (basic linear algebra subroutines) utilization, since BLAS have several performance optimized implementations. Also, the Fortran 90/95 array notation is used...