Absoft Fortran Compiler for Linux v10.1
Introduction
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.
The new Absoft Fortran Compiler v10 has been independently verified as a top performing Fortran compiler for 64-bit Linux on both IntelŽ XeonŽ and AMDŽ OpteronŽ 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.
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 XeonŽ and OpteronŽ 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 www.polyhedron.com for recent benchmark comparisons of this compiler's superior Fortran 90 and Fortran 77 performance against other Fortran compilers.