Absoft Pro Fortran 2013 Compiler For x86 & x86_64- Linux

Faster Code, AVX (Advanced Vector Extensions), more F2003 & F2008, AWE,
HPC Scientific & Engineering Libraries, Tools Plug-in, GPU options, more…

"Absoft brings their years of experience forward to benefit Apple developers with their companion products such as their Fx debugger and the Absoft Modules Environment. Intel and Absoft are working hard to help Apple developers maximize the power of the new Intel-based Mac platforms."."
James Reinders/ Director of Marketing and Business Development / Software Products Division Intel

Produktbeschreibung

Pro Fortran - Builds Faster Code Faster with Absoft's Exclusive Dynamic AP Load Balancing Technology, AVX support, OpenMP 3.0 support, SMP Analyzer, Tools Plug-in, New HPC Scientific & Engineering Math Library, GPU options and more.

Absoft's Pro Fortran tool suite automates building extremely fast parallel code on AMD and Intel multi-core systems. Compiler features include: APO, IPO, PGFDO optimizers, and Absoft's exclusive Dynamic AP load balancing technology which can increase performance up to 20% on multi-core systems. New for Pro Fortran v2012 is AVX support, Absoft Window Environment (AWE), External Libraries and Tools Plug-in, expanded F2003 support and enhanced Fx3 graphical debugger. CUDA GPU support via nVidia's CUDA libraries or HMPP preprocessor. New IMSL v7.0 numerical libraries are an available option.

The Absoft IDE is the only commercial Fortran/C++ development environment designed by Fortran experts. It includes: programmer's editor, graphical SMP and Vector analyzer, Fx3 graphical debugger, SMP and MPI control features, user configurable external library and tools plug-in, HPC Scientific and Engineering Libraries, GPU support options and 2D/3D graphics.

All Pro Fortran products include premier technical support directly from Absoft, Quick Fixes and Service Packs. IMSL v7.0 highly optimized numerical and statistical libraries (1000+ routines) are a low cost bundle option. Pro Fortran is compatible with recent releases of Fedora Core, openSuse, Ubuntu, RedHat Enterprise Linux and CentOS. Pro Fortran is a complete solution, nothing else to buy or learn - AND it generates 20% faster code!

Absoft compilers automate building parallel code
on multi-core systems. Advanced parallel and vector optimizers and AVX/SSE support ensures maximum application performance. OpenMP 3.0, SMP graphical code analyzer simplifies tuning and porting parallel code. Absoft's new HPC Scientific and Engineering Libraries provides optimized core math routines. Extensive documentation with examples and usage tips are included in pdf format.

Independently verified as a top performing Fortran compiler for 64-bit Linux on both Intel® and AMD ® processors. The Absoft Fortran compilers support all common industry extensions allowing customers to obtain significant performance gains simply by recompiling existing programs with the new compilers. See 3rd party Fortran comparison - 9 compilers on 16 tests.

Includes the only IDE designed for Fortran. Absoft simplifies code development by solving the problems associated with generic IDEs and those such as Visual Studio and Xcode which are excellent for C++, but have no knowledge of Fortran. The Absoft IDE supports both Fortran and C and automatically provides proper syntax sensitivity, array indexing, etc. for each language and OpenMP and MPI control features. It includes everything you need for building desktop, HPC and MPI applications: F95 compilers, programmer's editor, Fx3 graphical debugger, application framework, graphics and optimized math libraries in a single, easy-to-use package.

Single Solution - Linux, Windows and MacOS. Simplify code development for multiple platforms. Absoft provides same look and feel on every platform and allows you to build native applications for Linux, Windows and Mac from a single code base! Absoft's exclusive MaxFlex license manager allows a single license to float across Linux/Windows/Mac, saving you time and money.

Superior Performance

Niew Full Polyhedron Ltd. Benchmark Results for Your Platform:

• Linux Benchmarks

• Windows Benchmarks

• MacOS Intel Benchmarks

Results are reproduced with permission from Polyhedron Ltd. in the United Kingdom.

Ease of Use

'Just Installs' without modification on the latest 64-bit Linux implementations from Red Hat, SuSE, Mandrake, and other major builds and includes a complete User Guide with clear examples of editing, compiling, debugging and running programs.

Powerful and ease-to-use, the next generation Absoft Graphical IDE, and the Absoft Fx3 Debugger included with this compiler know if you are using C or Fortran and adjust key words, array indexing, etc. accordingly. Building and debugging mixed Fortran/C applications is easy.

Compatibility

Absoft uses an extended version of the Cray CF90 front end and adheres to the latest ISO and ANSI Fortran 95 standards. Extensions from all major workstations have been added to make sure your code ports from any environment with minimal effort.

Absoft Fortran compilers conform to all DoD MIL-STD 1753, FIPS 69-1, and POSIX standards, support most popular VAX/VMS extensions including RECORD, STRUCTURE, POINTER, and UNION, (per V5.4 of VMS FORTRAN), QUAD (REAL*16) data types as well as others from IBM/VS, Cray, Sun FORTRAN as well as FORTRAN 66 conventions.

Automatic byte-swapping and full integration with many third party tools means porting code from virtually any environment requires little more than a recompilation without rewriting code. The F95 compiler can operate in F95, F90 or F77 modes.

• IMSL Fortran Numerical Library available for 32-bit and/or 64-bit Linux
  
• STAR-CD - currently requires Absoft Pro Fortran v8.2 or v9 depending on your STAR-CD version
• Winteracter - A GUI toolset for the Fortran 90/95 programming language. It includes a comprehensive collection of visual tools and subroutine libraries for GUI development.
• nVidia CUDA libraries - The CUDA™ architecture enables developers to leverage the massively parallel processing power of NVIDIA GPUs.
• HMPP preprocessor - HMPP offers a high level abstraction for hybrid programming that fully leverages the computing power of the nVidia GPU without the complexity associated with GPU programming.
  

Multi-platform

Absoft manufactures high performance Fortran compiler suites for Windows, Macintosh(Intel & PPC), Intel/AMD Linux and PPC/Linux based systems.

Absoft compiler suites are source compatible across the different platforms which means that in most cases, only a recompile is needed to port code from one environment to another.

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Newest Features:

Absoft Window Environment (AWE) - Qt based application framework for Fortran.

• The Absoft Window Environment is a cross platform ( Linux, Windows and OS X ) graphical user interface for Fortran programs. A sizable, scrollable window provides an interface to the Fortran pre-connected unit numbers for input and
  output. Additional windows can be created using a simple extension to the Fortran OPEN statement. The contents of individual windows can be saved to disk or printer. Additional menus can be added to invoke program subroutines and
  functions. AWE can be configured to run as either an MDI (multiple document interface) or SDI (single document interface).
  

AbsoftTools External Libraries and Tools Plugin Support

• The AbsoftTools development environment has been enhanced to allow the integration of additional libraries and tools. When support is added for a particular library, adding that library to a user project is just a matter of marking a check box. Pre-configured plugins are included for Plplot, NetCDF 3, NetCDF 4, HDF 4, and HDF 5. Documentation on creating additional plugins is also provided.
  

Fx3 Debugger Matrix View Array Display

• The Fx3 Debugger includes a new Matrix view for two dimensional arrays.

Intel AVX instruction set support.

• Absoft Pro Fortran 2012 contains support for the new AVX instruction set in the compiler and the Fx3 Debugger.

New Fortran 2003 Statements and Functions

• ACOS
• ASIN
• ATAN
• COSH
• SINH
• TANH
• FLUSH
• COMMAND_ARGUMENT_COUNT
• GET_COMMAND_ARGUMENT
• GET_COMMAND
• GET_ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE
• IS_IOSTAT_END
• IS_IOSTAT_EOR
• MOVE_ALLOC
• NEW_LINE

The following generic functions have been added from F2008 to accept complex arguments

• ACOS
• ASIN
• ATAN
• COSH
• SINH
• TANH

New features from the previous release include:

Compiler

• Automatic Parallelization of Loops - across multiple cores
• Interprocedural Optimization - global code view improves performance
• Profile Guided Feedback Directed Optimization - reduces cache thrashing, branch mispredictions
• Absoft Dynamic AP technology - automatic load balancing
• Auto Vectorization - allows multiple loop iterations to execute in parallel
• Fortran 2003 ISO C bindings - simplifies mixed language development
• Full TR15581 - IEEE intrinsic module specifications
• OpenMP v3.0 - advances parallelism, simplifies threading and makes code more portable
• EXPLAIN Fortran Error Parsing

• OpenMP 3.0 thread support
• Enhanced user interface

• Parallel Make - speeds application builds
• OpenMP 3.0 - compile and runtime variables
• MPI control features
• SMP and Vector Analyzer - graphical code analysis tool facilitates code tuning
• Automatic F90 module dependency tracking - speeds builds
• Multiple Debug/Release Build Configurations
• External Makefile Based Projects
• Source Elements Navigator
• Math Libraries

• Prebuilt Reference LAPACK and BLAS libraries
• Prebuilt Scalapack and BLACS library for enhanced MPI support

• nVidia CUDA accelerator with coding example
• HMPP preprocessor with coding example

• Improved Absoft User Guide - documentation
• Updated Fortran Reference Guide - documentation
• Creating DLLs - white paper
• Optimization - white paper
• SMP and MPI Resources with coding tips - white paper

Besondere Eigenschaften

F2003/F2008 Supported Features

Function and Subroutine Extensions

Optimizations

• Code Generation major optimizations:
• Control flow optimization
• If-conversion
• Instruction scheduling
• Global register allocation
• Loop unrolling
• Peephole optimization
• Loop Nest Optimizer
• Loop-caused dependency analysis
• Loop Interchange
• Cache Blocking
• Loop Fission
• Loop Fusion
• Outer loop unrolling
• Prefetching
• Scalar Expansion and Array Expansion
• Gather-scatter
• Automatic Array Padding
• Vectorization (including SIMD)
• Global Scalar Optimization
• Pre-Optimizer
• Goto conversion and loop normalization
• Alias analysis (flow-free and flow-sensitive)
• Tail recursion elimination
• Dead store and dead code elimination
• Induction variable canonicalization
• Copy propagation
• Main Optimizer
• Partial redundancy elimination
• Global common sub-expression
• Loop invariant code motion
• Strength reduction
• Linear function test replacement
• Induction variable elimination
• Register promotion
• Inter-procedural Analysis
• Function inlining
• Inter-procedural constant propagation of globals and parameters
• Dead function and dead variable elimination
• Automatic common block padding
• Feedback Directed Optimization

Included on Distribution CD

Multi-processing Capabilities

Symmetric Multi-processing (SMP)
Absoft Pro Fortran uses all available processors by default. Multi-threading, vectorization, a high performance parallel optimizer, data perfecting, profile guided optimization, IPO, and advanced optimizations can be performed automatically. Combined with the included math libraries, Absoft provides the best solution for creating maximum application performance on single and multi-core systems.

Open MP Support: Absoft Fortran fully supports automatic multi-threading of applications.
Absoft Pro Fortran includes integrated OpenMP 3.0 support in the compiler and the Absoft Fx3 graphical debugger, debugs OpenMP Fortran sessions.

Benutzerfreundlichkeit

'Just Installs' without modification on the latest 64-bit Linux implementations from Red Hat, SuSE, Mandrake, and other major builds and includes a complete User Guide with clear examples of editing, compiling, debugging and running programs.

Powerful and ease-to-use, the next generation Absoft Graphical IDE, and the Absoft Fx3 Debugger included with this compiler know if you are using C or Fortran and adjust key words, array indexing, etc. accordingly. Building and debugging mixed Fortran/C applications is easy.