PGI Server

Fortran and C/C++ for 64-bit x64 and 32-bit x86 processor-based systems.

PGI Server™ is PGI's multi-user scientific and engineering compiler and tool bundle for multi-user systems and workgroups. PGI Server is available in three language versions:

• PGI Fortran Server—Fortran only
• PGI C/C++ Server—C and C++ only
• PGI Fortran/C/C++ Server—combined Fortran and C/C++

PGI C/C++ Server includes The Portland Group's native parallelizing/optimizing OpenMP C++ and ANSI C compilers. The C++ compiler closely tracks the proposed ANSI standard and is compatible with cfront versions 2 and 3. All C++ functions are compatible with Fortran and C functions, so you can compose programs from components written in all three languages.

PGI Server includes the PGDBG OpenMP and MPI parallel graphical debugger and the PGPROF OpenMP and MPI parallel graphical performance profiler that can debug and profile up to 16 local MPI processes. PGI Server also includes a precompiled MPICH message passing library.

PGI Server compilers and OpenMP/MPI debugger/profiler allow multiple users to compile, debug and profile parallel Fortran, C or C++ applications on any compatible computer networked to the system on which the PGI compilers are installed (a network-floating license) Licenses are available for Linux, Microsoft Windows or as a multi-platform license (Linux, Mac OS X and Windows). Multi-platform licenses can use any mix of operating systems up to the maximum seat count. PGI Workstation offers most of the same features as PGI Server but includes a single user node-locked license.

PGI Server for both 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.

This product targets 64-bit x64 and 32-bit x86 workstations with one or more single core or multi-core microprocessors.

* 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.

About PGI Accelerator Compilers

Beginning with PGI 2010, PGI expanded its product line to include offerings for either x64+GPU or x64 only platforms. "PGI Accelerator" products—the x64+GPU platform products—include support for the directive-based PGI Accelerator programming model and from within the PGI Accelerator Fortran compiler, support for CUDA Fortran. PGI Accelerator compilers are supported on all Intel and AMD x64 processor-based systems with CUDA-enabled NVIDIA GPUs running Linux, Mac OS X or Windows.

PGI Accelerator compilers (including CUDA Fortran) are contained in all PGI 2010 or later download packages. Trial license keys or updated permanent license keys are required to enable the accelerator features. Contact PGI Sales for information on upgrading your current license to a PGI Accelerator license.

PGI Server is available either with or without accelerator support. See the pricing section for details.

Technical Features

A partial list of technical features supported includes the following:

• PGFORTRAN™ native OpenMP and auto-parallel Fortran 95/03 compiler with CUDA extensions
• PGF77® native OpenMP and auto-parallel FORTRAN 77 compiler
• PGHPF® native data parallel compiler with full HPF language support (Linux only)
• PGCC® OpenMP and auto-parallel ANSI and K&R C compiler
• PGC++® OpenMP and auto-parallel C++ compiler
• PGDBG® OpenMP and MPI parallel graphical debugger
• PGPROF® OpenMP and MPI parallel graphical performance profiler
• Full support for the PGI Accelerator™ programming model on x64+GPU (PGFORTRAN and PGCC only)
• Full 64-bit support on multi-core AMD64 and Intel 64
• Intel 64 and AMD Opteron optimizations including SSE4.2/AVX, SSE4a/ABM, prefetching, use of extended register sets, and 64-bit addressing
• PGI Unified Binary™ technology combines into a single executable or object file code optimized for multiple AMD64 processors, Intel 64 processors or NVIDIA GPUs.
• Complete uniform development environment across 64-bit and 32-bit AMD and Intel processor-based systems running Linux, Mac OS X or Windows
• Full support for Fortran 95 extensions and numerous Fortran 2003 extensions.
• Full support for ANSI C99
• Full support for OpenMP 3.0 on up to 256 cores
• Support for 64-bit integers (-r8/-i8 compilation flags)
• Highly tuned Intel MMX and SSE intrinsics library routines (C/C++ only)
• One pass interprocedural analysis (IPA)
• Interprocedural optimization of libraries
• Profile feedback optimization
• Function inlining including library functions
• Vectorization, loop interchange, loop splitting
• Memory hierarchy 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
• Concurrent subroutine call support
• Extensive vectorization/optimization directives/pragmas support
• State-of-the-art dependence analysis and global optimization
• Invariant conditional removal
• Tuning for non-uniform memory access (NUMA) architectures
• Process/CPU affinity support in SMP/OpenMP applications
• Support for creating shared objects on Linux, dynamic libraries on Mac OS X and DLLs on Windows
• Tracking ANSI C++ Standard?봂DG 4.1 C++ front-end
• C++ Class member templates
• C++ partial specialization and ordering
• C++ explicit template qualification
• C/C++ extended asm support
• GNU style template instantiation
• GNU linkonce support
• Integrated cpp pre-processing
• Cray/DEC/IBM extensions (including Cray POINTERs & DEC STRUCTURES/UNIONS)
• Support for SGI-compatible DOACROSS in PGF77 and PGF95
• Threads-based auto-parallelization using Fortran
• Threads-based auto-parallelization of FOR loops in C/C++
• Full native OpenMP parallelization directives in Fortran
• Full native OpenMP parallelization pragmas in C/C++
• Byte swapping I/O for RISC/UNIX interoperability
• Full support for Common Compiler Feedback Format compiler optimization listings
• User modules simplify switching between multiple compiler environments/versions
• 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
• Optional PGI compiled IMSL Fortran numerical library available
• 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!
• Pre-validated de facto standard support libraries including NetCDF, F95 OpenGL, ATLAS, ScaLAPACK, FFTW, MPICH, MPICH2 and LAM MPI
• Interoperable with TotalView* (Linux only) and Allinea DDT.
• Fully interoperable with gcc, g77, and gdb
• Unconditional 30 day money back guarantee

System Requirements

• Host 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.
  Accelerator (optional): NVIDIA CUDA-enabled GPU with compute capability 1.0 or later.
• 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 7, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 (x64), Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition or Windows XP Professional x64 Edition.
    32-bit: Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, Server 2008 (x86) or XP.
  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 optional 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.