SOFTWARE
PGI Visual Fortran for Visual Studio 2010
Portland Group
The Portland Group has released PGI Visual Fortran (PVF) for Visual Studio 2010, which integrates 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. Visual Studio is the most widely used IDE in the world. PVF tools and technologies, including an MPI/OpenMP parallel debugger, enable Visual Studio developers to efficiently develop High Performance Computing (HPC) applications for multi-core workstations and Windows HPC Server 2008 clusters. In addition, PGI Visual Fortran is available with support for programming Nvidia GPU accelerators using directive-based PGI Accelerator Fortran or CUDA Fortran language extensions.