PGI Fortran Server

F77, F95 and HPF for 64-bit x64 and 32-bit x86 processor-based servers

PGI Fortran Server is PGI's Fortran compiler bundle for multi-user systems and workgroups. PGI Fortran Server includes multi-user network floating licenses for all of the PGI Fortran compilers, for PGDBG® OpenMP and MPI parallel graphical debugger and for PGPROF® OpenMP and MPI parallel graphical performance profiler.

If you develop or maintain scientific and technical applications, chances are you have a big investment in Fortran. After fifty years, it's still the cornerstone of technical computing. The PGI Fortran Server compilers deliver outstanding performance on 64-bit x64 and 32-bit x86 processor-based workstations and servers, and enable simple portable parallel programming for both shared-memory and clustered computing systems. Whether you have legacy FORTRAN 77 that relies on Cray, DEC, or IBM extensions, or are writing modern parallel codes in OpenMP Fortran 90/95 or High Performance Fortran (HPF), with PGI Fortran Server you have the option of parallelizing your applications automatically, or by using explicit HPF or OpenMP directives. PGI's outstanding performance allows you to build high performance applications for SMP shared-memory servers which can then run unchanged on workstation, clusters or shared-memory servers.

The PGI Fortran Server compilers and OpenMP/MPI graphical debugger/profiler allows multiple users to compile, debug and profile high performance parallel Fortran and HPF applications on any compatible computer networked to the system on which the PGI compilers are installed (a network floating license).

The PGI Fortran Server package includes the PGF95™ Fortran 95 compiler, the PGF77® FORTRAN 77 compiler, and the PGHPF® High Performance Fortran compiler. PGF95 and PGF77 support automatic parallelization for SMP workstations using a simple compiler switch, and full native support for OpenMP directive-based SMP parallel programming. Many vendors support parallelization using simple add-on pre-processing technology, but PGI Fortran Server offers the only parallel compilers, debugger and profiler available with parallel shared-memory support integrated into the compilers and tools. The end result is quicker development, higher performance and much higher reliability for the programmer.

PGI Fortran Server includes debugging and profiling support for up to eight local MPI processes.

PGI Fortran Server for Mac OS X and Windows consists of command-level versions of the PGI compilers and both command-level and graphical versions of the PGDBG debugger and PGPROF performance profiler. An integrated development environment (IDE) is neither provided nor supported. As a separate product, PGI Visual Fortran fully integrates PGI Fortran compilers and tools into Microsoft Windows using Microsoft Visual Studio.

* PGI Server for Microsoft Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications (SUA) and Services for UNIX (SFU) are available as part of PGI's UNIX to Windows migrations services. Please contact PGI sales for more information.

This product targets 64-bit x64 and 32-bit x86 servers with one or more single core or multi-core microprocessors running Linux or Windows.

About PGI Accelerator Compilers
With Release 9.0, the PGI Fortran 95 compiler supports directive-based programming of x64+NVIDIA Linux systems; PGF95 accelerator compiler is supported on all Intel and AMD x64 processor-based systems with CUDA-enabled NVIDIA GPUs.

PGI Accelerator compilers are included in all PGI Linux download packages. Either trial license keys or updated permanent license keys are required to enable them. Please see the PGI Accelerator page for more information.

Technical Features

A partial list of technical features supported includes the following:

• PGF95™ native OpenMP and auto-parallel Fortran 95 compiler
• PGF77® native OpenMP and auto-parallel FORTRAN 77 compiler
• PGHPF® native data parallel compiler with full HPF language support (Linux only)
• PGDBG® OpenMP and MPI parallel graphical debugger
• PGPROF® OpenMP and MPI parallel graphical performance profiler
• Full 64-bit support on multi-core AMD64 and Intel 64
• Intel 64 and AMD Opteron optimizations including SSE/SSE2/SSE3/SSSE3/SSE4.1/SSE4.2, SSE4a/ABM, prefetching, use of extended register sets, and 64-bit addressing
• PGI Unified Binary™ combines into a single executable or object file code optimized for multiple AMD64 and Intel 64 processors
• Complete uniform development environment across 64-bit and 32-bit AMD and Intel processor-based systems running Linux, Mac OS X or Windows
• Large file (> 2GB) support in Fortran on 32-bit x86 systems
• -r8/-i8 compilation flags, 64-bit integers
• Full support for Fortran 95 extensions and comprehensive support for Fortran 2003.
• Full support for OpenMP 3.0
• Includes optimized ACML (LAPACK/BLAS/FFT) math library supported on all targets
• Supports multi-threaded execution with Intel Math Kernel Libraries (MKL) 10.1 and later
• One pass Interprocedural analysis (IPA)
• Interprocedural optimization of libraries
• Profile feedback optimization
• Function inlining including library functions
• Vectorization, loop interchange, loop splitting
• Memory heirarchy and memory allocation optimizations including huge pages support
• Loop unrolling, loop fusion, and cache tiling
• Enhanced auto-parallelization of loops specifically optimized for multi-core processors
• Support for creating shared objects on Linux, dynamic libraries on Mac OS X and DLLs on Windows
• Cray/DEC/IBM extensions (including Cray POINTERs & DEC STRUCTURES/UNIONS)
• Support for SGI-compatible DOACROSS in PGF77 and PGF95
• Byte swapping I/O for RISC/UNIX interoperability
• Integrated cpp pre-processing
• Threads-based auto-parallelization using both PGF77 and PGF95
• Full native OpenMP parallelization directives in PGF77 and PGF95
• Process/CPU affinity support in SMP/OpenMP applications
• Full support for Common Compiler Feedback Format compiler optimization listings
• Network installation option for large installations running multiple operating systems (Linux only)
• User modules simplify switching between multiple compiler environments/versions
• UNIX-compatible build/edit environment for Windows, including the BASH shell, vi editor, make, tar, gzip, sed, grep, awk, and over 100 other shell commands!
• Prevalidated de facto standard support libraries including NetCDF, F95 OpenGL, ATLAS, ScaLAPACK, FFTW, MPICH, MPICH2 and LAM MPI
• Interoperable with TotalView* (Linux only)
• Fully interoperable with gcc, g77, and gdb
• Unconditional 30 day money back guarantee

System Requirements

• Processor: 64-bit AMD64, 64-bit Intel 64 or 32-bit x86 processor-based workstation or server with one or more single core or multi-core AMD Opteron, Phenom, Athlon or Turion, or Intel Pentium II/III/4/M/D, Centrino, Core, Core 2 or Xeon microprocessors.
• Operating System:
  • Red Hat Linux 9.0 or higher, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 9 or higher, SUSE 9.0 or higher, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 or higher, or Fedora Core 4 or higher. Fully interoperable with newer versions of Linux which use kernel revision 2.4 and glibc 2.3.2 or higher.
  • Apple Mac OS X version 10.4.11 or higher (64-bit and 32-bit) and Xcode 2.5 or higher.
  • 64-bit: Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 (x64), Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition or Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications (SUA)*.
    32-bit: Vista, Server 2003, Server 2008 (x86), XP, SUA* or Services for UNIX (SFU)*.
  Building 64-bit executables requires a 64-bit operating system.
• Memory: 16 MB or more.
• Hard Disk: 250 MB during installation, 150 MB to hold installed software.
• Peripherals: Mouse or compatible pointing device for use of opt ional graphical user interfaces. CD-ROM disk drive for installation, unless products are downloaded electronically.
• Other: Web browser and Adobe Acrobat Reader for viewing online documentation.

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