PGHPF Workstation

by The Portland Group

F77, F95 and HPF for 32-bit and 64-bit AMD64 and IA32 processor-based systems.

PGHPF® Workstation is PGI's Fortran-only compiler bundle. PGHPF Workstation includes a single-user node-locked license for all of the PGI Fortran compilers, for PGDBG® OpenMP Linux graphical debugger (not currently available on Microsoft* Windows*) and for PGPROF® graphical OpenMP Linux performance profiler (command-level only on Windows).

If you develop or maintain scientific and technical applications, chances are you have a big investment in Fortran. After four decades, it's still the cornerstone of technical computing. The PGHPF® Workstation Fortran compilers deliver outstanding performance on 32-bit and 64-bit AMD64 and IA32 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 95 or High Performance Fortran (HPF), PGHPF Workstation has all the features you need.

PGHPF Workstation is highly optimized for Intel Pentium II/III/4, Intel Xeon/Xeon-64 and AMD Athlon/AthlonXP/Opteron processor-based workstations and servers running 32-bit or 64-bit Linux or 32-bit Microsoft* Windows* (NT/2000/XP). You'll 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 single, dual, or quad-processor workstations which can then run unchanged on workstation clusters, shared-memory servers, or high-end distributed-memory or NUMA supercomputers.

The PGHPF Workstation package includes the PGF90? Fortran 95 compiler, the PGF77® FORTRAN 77 compiler, and the PGHPF High Performance Fortran compiler. PGF90 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 PGHPF Workstation offers the only parallel compilers, debugger and profiler available with parallel distributed-memory and 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. There are also no parallel runtime fees of any kind -- the executables produced by the PGHPF Workstation compilers can be executed on any compatible system regardless of whether PGHPF Workstation is installed.

Technical Features

• PGF90? 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
• PGDBG® OpenMP and MPI parallel Linux graphical debugger (not currently available on Windows)
• PGPROF® graphical OpenMP and MPI parallel Linux performance profiler (command-level only on Windows)
• Full 64-bit support on AMD Opteron, AMD Athlon64 and Intel Xeon-64 including full support for -mcmodel=medium and single data objects > 2GB
• AMD Opteron optimizations including SSE/SSE2, prefetching, use of extended register sets, and 64-bit addressing
• Pentium II/III/4/Xeon and AMD Athlon/AthlonXP optimizations including SSE/SSE2 and prefetching where supported in hardware
• Includes AMD Core Math Library (ACML) version 2.0
• Cray/DEC/IBM compatibility (including Cray POINTERs)
• Supported on 32-bit and 64-bit Linux and 32-bit Windows (NT/2000/XP)
• Parallel executables generated by PGI's Workstation-class compilers use up to 4 processors
• Full support for Fortran 95 extensions
• Large file (> 2GB) support in Fortran on 32-bit x86 systems
• One pass Interprocedural analysis (IPA)
• -r8/-i8 compilation flags, 64-bit integers
• Function inlining, loop unrolling, cache tiling
• Interoperable with Etnus TotalView®
• Fully interoperable with gcc, g77, and gdb
• Byte-swapping I/O for RISC/UNIX interoperability
• Integrated cpp pre-processing
• Threads-based auto-parallelization using both PGF77 and PGF90
• Full native OpenMP parallelization directives in PGF77 and PGF90
• Support for SGI-compatible DOACROSS in PGF77 and PGF90
• HPF parallelization of irregular DO loops, FORALLs, and array assignments
• HPF parallelization using direct accesses to shared memory
• FORALL and F90 array assignment merging
• Re-use of communication schedules
• Complete implementation of the HPF Library
• Support for creation of shared objects on Linux and DLL on Windows
• Support for Linux HPF graphical profiling and performance tuning
• Cross-OS licensing at no extra charge -- use PGHPF Workstation under any OS on multi-boot systems
• UNIX-compatible build/edit environment for Windows, including the BASH shell, vi and EMACS editors, make, tar, gzip, sed, grep, awk, and over 100 other shell commands!
• Home-use license at no extra charge
• Unconditional 30 day money back guarantee

System Requirements

• Processor: 32-bit x86, 64-bit AMD64 technology or 64-bit IA32 EM64T processor-based workstation or server with one or more AMD Opteron, AMD Athlon/AthlonXP, Intel Pentium II/III/4, Intel Xeon/Xeon-64 microprocessors.
• Operating System: 32-bit: Red Hat Linux 7.0 or higher or Microsoft Windows NT/2000/XP. 64-bit: SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 (SLES 8), SuSE 9.0 and 9.1, Red Hat Enterprise Linux v3.0 or Fedora Core 2.
  Memory: 16 MB or more.
• Hard Disk: 250 MB during installation, 100 MB to hold installed software (150 MB on Windows).
• Peripherals: Mouse or compatible pointing device for use of optional graphical user interfaces. CD-ROM disk drive for installation, unless products are downloaded and installed electronically.
• Other: Web browser and Adobe Acrobat Reader for viewing online documentation.