R. David Murray added the comment:

To clarify the GIL issue (for davin, I guess? :): if the library you are using 
to interface with the FORTRAN code drops the GIL before calling the FORTRAN, 
then you *can* take advantage of multiple cores.  It is only the python code 
(and some of the code interacting with the python objects) that is limited to 
executing on one core at a time.  (As far as I know it isn't restricted to be 
the *same* core unless you set CPU affinity somehow, and I have no idea if it 
improves performance to use CPU affinity or not).

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