NEW Absoft®
Fortran Compilers for 32-bit and 64-bit Linux"The Absoft Fortran
compiler family v10 demonstrates high-performance, high-reliability
and completeness in language support for 64-bit environments.
The Absoft compilers support multiple platforms, allowing MATFOR
to excel in multi-platform environments and enhancing performance
by a noteworthy gain. Absoft Fortran compilers are definitely
a highly valued companion of MATFOR."
- Simon Su, CTO, AnCAD, Inc.
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NEW Absoft Fortran compilers for 32-bit and 64-bit
Linux combine state-of-the-art code generation and optimization
technology with solid reliability and the industry's
most complete list of tools and libraries into a single
package with prices starting as low as $299 for Absoft
Fortran Express. The new Absoft Fortran Compiler v10
has been independently verified as a top performing Fortran compiler for 64-bit Linux on
both Intel® Xeon® and AMD® Opteron® processors. The new Absoft Fortran
compilers are source-compatible with previous Absoft
Fortran compilers allowing customers to obtain
significant performance gains simply by compiling
existing programs with the new compilers. Absoft Fortran
is fully compatible with the latest standards and the
gnu tool chain. Absoft's Fx2 Debugger is included at
no additional charge in Standard packages and a new
C++ technology preview is included with the 64-bit Standard
package as well.
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Superior Performance
New Absoft Fortran Compilers for Linux use state-of-the-art
optimization technology to deliver superior execution speed
and the best real-world application performance on x64 AMD®
Opteron and Intel® Xeon™ processors based on Linux systems.
For developing Fortran in parallel environments, tools that
can automatically restructure serial code for dual processors,
add OpenMP directives or help build and debug complex code on
a distributed cluster system are optionally available.
Ease of Use
The Absoft Fortran Compiler for Linux will install on any popular
Linux distribution. Fortran includes a complete User Guide (.PDF)
with clear examples of editing, compiling, debugging and running
programs. To ensure customers obtain maximum performance, options
are suggested for optimizations and compatibility. Linking with
C/C++ is simple and the Absoft Fx2 Debugger included with this
compiler is one of the only debugging solutions that can properly
debug both Fortran and C/C++ programs. Pre-built math and graphics
libraries are also included.
Compatibility
Absoft Fortran adheres to the latest ISO and ANSI Fortran 95
standards. The compiler is fully source-compatible with all
previous and future versions of Absoft Fortran Compilers. Huge
productivity gains can be attained by merely recompiling existing
source code. For legacy applications, Absoft compilers support:
- DoD MIL-STD 1753
- FIPS 69-1
- POSIX standards
- Most popular VAX/VMS
extensions including:
- RECORD
- STRUCTURE
- POINTER
- UNION
- QUAD data types
- Several IBM/VS, Cray, Sun FORTRAN and FORTRAN 66 conventions
- Automatic byte swapping
- Full integration with GNU (porting code often requires little
more than recompilation)
- F95, F90 or F77 mode
- Fully compatible with the gnu tool chain
Instructions
to get Absoft Fortran for Mac OSX and Linux 32/ 64-bit systems
to work with MPICH version 1.2.4
Information
from Argonne Labs - Using Absoft Fortran with MPICH2
Multi-platform
One solution across Linux, Windows and Mac OS. Absoft compilers
are fully source compatible across all popular platforms and
a simple recompile is typically all that is required to move
from one environment to the next. Absoft offers dynamic license
management options which can instantly change to support the
platform you are currently working on.
- Automatic vectorization
of your code, including compiler-generated option recommendations
- SSE2/SSE3 supported
- Industry leading performance and optimizations
- Superior reliability, compatibility, portability, support,
pricing, and licensing options
- Fully source compatible with all previous and future Absoft
Fortran releases for all supported operating systems (Linux,
OS X, Windows) and processors (x32, x64, POWER)
- Advanced code generation and optimization technology with
Cray-F90 based front-end
- 64-bit version generates code for both 32-bit and 64-bit
systems; 32-bit version generates 32-bit code only
- Easy installation for any Linux distribution. 'Just Installs'
without modification on the latest 64-bit Linux implementations
from Red Hat, SuSE, Mandrake, and other major builds
- Conforms to the Linux Standard Base specification
- Compatible with glibc, gcc, g77, f2c, the GNU linker, debugger,
assembler and make utility
- Fortran compiler operates in F95, F90 or F77 modes
- Includes Fx2 multi-language debugger for Fortran, C, C++,
Assembler
- Multi-processing options including automatic parallelization
and OpenMP tools
Absoft Fortran compilers also comes with several advanced features
from the latest Fortran 2003 language specification which include:
- Allocatable attributes for derived type components
- IEEE floating point exception handling
- Pointers with INTENT attributes
- PROTECTED attributes
- VALUE attributes
- VOLATILE attributes
- Support for extended 63 character names
Best performance - According
to the most popular industry benchmarks for Fortran, SPEC2000
and Polyhedron
2005, Absoft's new Fortran compilers produce the top 64-bit
performance on both Xeon® and Opteron® processors and are fully
source compatibility with previous Absoft compilers. Just upgrade
and recompile to gain significant performance increases!
Highest reliability - Absoft's long-standing reliability
is based on a mature code base - our Cray Research-based Fortran
front-end is the most commercially weathered and reliable Fortran
compiler front-end in the industry.
Fully source compatible - Absoft is the only commercial
Fortran vendor offering a common Fortran solution across Linux,
Windows and OS X with superior performance on both AMD and Intel
processors. Absoft Fortran is fully compatible with existing
Absoft Fortran compilers and the GNU tool chain, so existing
Absoft customers need only to recompile their application to
take advantage of significant additional performance.
Live, industry-leading technical support - Absoft has the
reputation of the best Fortran technical support in the industry
and is the best choice for a single point of contact for customers
to receive top quality support.
Lowest price - Not only do our new, lower prices give
you the best price/performance available, Absoft offers the
only Fortran compilers with MaxFlex licensing which allows licenses
to be reused freely across different platforms (Linux, Windows,
OS X) from a single license server. These features represent
significant cost savings for developers working in environments
where computers and compilers need to be shared across multiple
systems.
Absoft's Fortran Compiler for Linux is unrivaled in both ease
of use and its comprehensive list of features and typically
generates code that performs as fast or faster than any other
Fortran compiler. Absoft 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 data types as well as others
from IBM/VS, Cray, Sun FORTRAN and FORTRAN 66 conventions. PIC
code, automatic byte swapping, full integration with GNU tools
and LSB compliance means porting code from any environment with
Absoft requires little more than a recompilation. The easy-to-use
Absoft Fortran compiler "just installs". A 2D/3D pre-compiled
graphics library, pre-built BLAS, ATLAS and LAPACK90 libraries
and technical support from friendly engineers is included at
no additional charge.
Absoft is the only Fortran vendor offering bundle pricing on
source-compatible Fortran solutions for all of today's popular
computing platforms (Windows, Macintosh, and Linux). Customers
save time and money with source-compatible Fortran solutions
for all their development environments.
Options for an automatically parallelizing pre-processor, OpenMP
and cluster configurations will be available. Technical support,
service packs and software fixes are included with each license
purchased at no additional charge. See http://www.polyhedron.com/ for recent benchmark comparisons
of this compiler's superior Fortran 90 and Fortran 77 performance
against other Fortran compilers.
Absoft Fortran Compilers for Linux use state-of-the-art optimization
technology to deliver the best real-world application performance
on 64-bit AMD® Athlon and Intel® Xeon™ processors. For developing
Fortran in parallel environments, tools that can automatically
restructure serial code for dual processors, add OpenMP directives
or help build and debug complex code on a distributed cluster
system will be optionally available.
- ELF object file format
- Designed for AMD and Xeon processors
- DWARF debugging format
- Big Endian <-> Little Endian data conversion
- Absoft F90/95 and F77 are fully link compatible
- Link compatibility option with gcc, g77 and f2c
- Fortran Statement Extensions
- INTEGER*8
- REAL*16
- COMPLEX*32
- %VAL and %LOC
- COMPLEX*16 functions
- Degree Trig. Functions
- INTEGER*2 Functions
- Variable Format descriptor
- Natural C Function Interface
- VAX
& UNIX Subroutine Libraries
- Complete VAX
Intrinsic Functions
- VAX
compatible TIME and DATE
- F90/95 compilers (F77 mode supported) and Fx2™ Debugger
- PLplot Graphics
- Code examples
- VAX/Unix
compatibility libraries
- User Guide, F90/95 & F77 Reference Manuals in indexed
PDF format
- HDF (Hierarchical Data Format) pre-compiled libraries with
Fortran entry points
- Both release 4.1r5 and release 5-1.4.4
- BLAS - pre-compiled
- ATLAS pre-built for AMD Athlon and Intel Xeon
- LAPACK95 - pre-compiled
- Distribution includes both RPM and TAR formats, compatible
with glibc, and any Linux implementation based on kernel 2.0
or later
- VAST-F/Parallel is available as an option and includes an
OpenMP support
Symmetric Multi-processing (SMP)
For Fortran compiler users with multi-processor systems, the
optional VAST-F/Parallel package is a pre-processor that can
restructure serial programs to automatically add parallelism
to Fortran programs to enable faster execution on machines with
multiple processors. The original Fortran source code is unaffected.
VAST-F/P is an easy and cost effective way to reap the performance
benefits offered by multi-processor environments with Absoft's
Fortran compilers.
High Performance Computing Software Development Kit
(HPC SDK)
The Absoft HPC SDK is
the premier software tool kit for building and running high
performance computing applications on clusters. Absoft's HPC
SDK includes powerful, pre-configured tools that help you immediately
compile, debug, run, and optimize high performance computing
applications.
The above chart summarizes the peformance of Absoft Fortran
relative to that of other Fortran compilers running the Polyhedron
Benchmark Suite on AMD Opteron™ and Intel® Xeon® as tested by
Polyhedron LTD.
* Compilers scoring slowest on AMD Opteron™ and Intel® Xeon®
times respectively.
In the independently developed Polyhedron and Spec benchmarks, Absoft Fortran for Linux displays superior
performance. In real-world applications, Absoft Fortran for
64-bit Linux typically outperforms other compilers, generating
code that is as fast or faster than any other Fortran compiler.
Absoft Fortran compilers provide the top performance on both
Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron processors.
Judge for yourself. See performance
results
Up to 40% faster code on 64-bit Opteron and Xeon than v9. All
that is necessary in most cases to increase the performance
of your application is to recompile your code. New flexible
configurations include the Fortran Express license on a 12 month
subscription basis for cost sensitive, short term, or academic
projects and Absoft Standard with single user and floating perpetual
licenses available. Further, Absoft's no charge companion home
license policy allows registered users to install Absoft Fortran
compilers on their personal computer at no additional charge.
Fortran includes a complete User Guide (.PDF) with clear examples
of editing, compiling, debugging and running programs. To ensure
customers obtain maximum performance, options are suggested
for optimizations and compatibility. Linking with C/C++ is simple
and the Absoft Fx2 Debugger available with most configurations
of this compiler is one of the only debugging solutions that
can properly debug both Fortran and C/C++ programs. Pre-built
math and graphics libraries are also included.
General Availability: January 16 2006 (64
bit version)
February
2006 (32 bit version)
- 64 bit machines
- AMD Turion, mobile x64AMD
or Intel mobile x64
- Opteron 64-bit, Athlon 64-bit
or Intel EM64T CPU
- 128 MB RAM
- 64-bit Linux
- OS must have 32-bit runtime
support
- 32-bit glibc development package
required to develop 32-bit applications
- Installs without modification
on:
- SuSE 8.0 or later
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0
or later
- 32 bit machines
-
x586-class or above processor is required. This
includes Intel Pentium I/II/III/IV, AMD K6/II/III, AMD Duron,
AMD Athlon/XP/MP, Celeron, Xeon, Pentium M, Athlon64, and
Opteron. SMP multi-processor machines are also supported.
- 64 MB RAM required, 128 MB or more recommended
- 15 MB free disk space
- Installs without modification on:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 or later
- SuSE 8.1 or later
- Mandrake 8.2 or later
- Fedora Core 1 or later
Click here
for the demo.
Absoft's Fx2™
Debbuger bundled with Fortran for Linux is the most flexible
and comprehensive debugging solution available for Fortran developers
and also works well for C/C++ and assembler debugging. Fx2™
is the industry's most efficient debugging solution because
a single copy of Fx2 is fully compatible with compilers from
Absoft, GNU, Intel, PathScale, and IBM. If you use multiple
compilers, Fx2™ is the most complete solution available for
your debugging needs.
User
Guide
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and Companion Products |
Optional multi-processing tools include automatic parallelization
tools and OpenMP support for symmetric multi-processing (SMP).
Automatic parallelization tools can automatically restructure
programs with serial code to programs taking advantage of the
high performance computing capabilities of multi-processor systems
(see VAST-F/Parallel).
Cluster Software Kits are available for users building cluster
systems.
Third party products, and graphics packages will be available
for Absoft's new Fortran compiler for Linux. The advanced code
generation provided by Absoft Fortran requires third party applications
designed to work with this version. The following third party
products will be available from Absoft:
- VAST Auto-parallelization
and Auto-vectorization Libraries
- MATFOR
Numerical and Visualization Library
- IMSL Fortran
Numerical Library
Additional third party products can be found on Fortran resources,
including DISLIN,
the high-level and easy to use graphics library for displaying
data as curves, bar graphs, pie charts, 3-D color plots, surfaces,
contours and maps and is now available for Absoft Fortran for
32-bit and 64-bit Linux.
Full technical
support from friendly technicians is included at no additional
charge with each new product from Absoft. To ensure your software
continues running at maximum efficiency, all registered Absoft
customers can download service
packs and quick fixes at no charge. Customers and partners can
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to Absoft's free electronic mailing list to receive electronic
bulletins and update notices advising of new updates, changes
in product releases, new product announcements, and other news.
Several options are available:
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Absoft Express Fortran
v10.0
- 1 year single user subscription only $299
- Command line Fortran 95 compiler v10
- Extensive optimizations, leading performance, top reliability
- Low cost license especially suitable for academic and research
facilities
- VAX/Unix
libraries and documentation in PDF format
- Available immediately by credit card / electronic download
- 12 month subscription (renewable annually at only $299)
- Applications created with Absoft Fortran Express are perpetual
- Free Absoft technical support by email and telephone!
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Absoft Standard Fortran
v10.0
- Perpetual single user and floating licenses
- starting at only $799
- Floating licenses and MaxFlex™ (cross-platform) license
options
- Command line Fortran 95 compiler v10
- Extensive optimizations, leading performance,
top reliability
- Includes everything in Absoft Express Fortran, along with
much more:
- Market-leading Absoft Fx2 Fortran/C/C++ Debugger (superior
to gdb-based debuggers)
- New C/C++ technology preview is included with the 64-bit
compiler
- Pre-built LAPACK, LAPACK95, BLAS, ATLAS, PLplot, math libraries
- Supports ACML (available by download from AMD)
- Upgrade from Absoft 9.x for only $299; from 8.x or earlier
for only $399
- Free Absoft technical support by email and telephone!
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Fortran |
10.0 |
FEXL1CSSA0 FEXL2CSSA0 |
$299.00* |
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Fortran |
10.0 |
F95L1ESSA0 F95L2ESSA0 |
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Fortran |
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FEXL1CSSA0 FEXL2CSSA0 |
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Fortran |
10.0 |
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