The Portland Group Adds IMSL Fortran Numerical Library for Windows

By DE Editors

The Portland Group (PGI; Portland, OR), a supplier of compilers and development tools for high-performance computing (HPC), announced that the IMSL Fortran Numerical Library from Visual Numerics, Inc. ( Houston, TX ) is available from The Portland Group for PGI's line of multicore optimizing parallel Fortran compilers running Microsoft Windows.

The IMSL Fortran Library, a set of mathematical and statistical functions, lets software developers use the prewritten functions included within the library as building blocks in their software applications, freeing programmers from developing their own equivalent functions.

PGI compilers and tools are used predominantly on 64- and 32-bit Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows workstations, servers, and clusters based on microprocessors from AMD and Intel. The Portland Group's PGI Workstation includes compilers and tools for building, debugging, and profiling parallel 64- and 32-bit Fortran, C, and C++ applications within a Unix- and Linux-compatible development environment.

Key compiler features include automatic and user-directed parallelization and optimizations for extracting maximum performance from the new generation of multi-core processors. Also the PGI Visual Fortran compiler is available fully integrated with Microsoft's Visual Studio 2005 development environment.

Registration is required for a trial version of PGI compilers available for download.

For details, go to The Portland Group, a subsidiary of STMicroelectronics (Geneva, Switzerland).

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.