The Portland Group Releases PGI Visual Fortran for Visual Studio 2010

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The Portland Group (PGI), a wholly-owned subsidiary of STMicroelectronics and the leading independent supplier of compilers and tools for high-performance computing, has announced the general availability of PGI Visual Fortran (PVF) for Visual Studio 2010

The Portland Group (PGI), a wholly-owned subsidiary of STMicroelectronics and the leading independent supplier of compilers and tools for high-performance computing, has announced the general availability of PGI Visual Fortran (PVF) for Visual Studio 2010. PVF integrates PGI high-performance parallel Fortran compilers and tools with Microsoft Visual Studio to offer a high-productivity development solution to scientists and engineers upgrading to the latest 64-bit multi-core platforms running Microsoft Windows.

PGI compilers and tools are used widely by performance-oriented programmers on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows systems based on multi-core CPUs from Intel and AMD and incorporating GPU accelerators from NVIDIA. The new 10.6 version of the PGI 2010 release adds support for building Windows Fortran applications using the latest version of the popular Microsoft Visual Studio Integrated Development Environment (IDE)Visual Studio 2010.

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se of PVF, PGI Fortran compilers and tools for multi-core processors and GPUs are available through Visual Studio 2010 to the large base of scientists and engineers developing for Windows, said Douglas Miles, director, The Portland Group. PVFs world-class performance and state-of-the art compiler technologies allow developers to leverage the wide array of new microprocessor and accelerator innovations coming out of Intel, AMD and NVIDIA together with the productivity advantages of Microsoft HPC technologies, he added.

PGI Visual Fortran is based on PGIs native OpenMP and auto-parallelizing compiler for the Fortran 95/2003 programming languages. Its key features include native Fortran 95/2003 Visual Studio project system, fortran text editor extensions, intrinsic function tips and keyword completion, ntegrated PGI-custom Fortran-capable debugger for debugging of single-thread, multi-thread and OpenMP parallel applications and MSMPI parallel applications running locally an

d on clusters and Microsoft Visual C++ interoperability among others.

PVF is distributed by electronic download and is available presently. A single user academic license with GPU support is $249 USD. Commercial licenses start at $599 and $899 with GPU support. PVF is also available in multi-user network floating license configurations. All PGI products include a 30 day money-back guarantee. A 15 day free trial of PVF along with complete product and pricing information is available from The Portland Group web site at www.pgroup.com/pvf.