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October 04, 2007

Absoft Pro Fortran v10.1 Announced

Posted: 2007-10-04 22:21:00
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Absoft Pro Fortran v10.1 has been announced. It is a Fortran compiler suite supporting Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

This release includes: support for Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors, auto-parallelization, auto-vectorization, performance improvements, and other changes. Linux is the first platform to be supported, with Windows and Mac OS X support to be available this fall.

June 05, 2007

Sun Studio 12 Released

Posted: 2007-06-05 07:26:00
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Sun Studio 12 has been released. It includes compilers for C, C++ and Fortran, supporting Solaris on SPARC, and Solaris and Linux on x86/x64.

The changes for this release include: support for Linux, new multithreading/multicore tools, performance improvements, improved GCC compatibility, and more.

October 22, 2006

InlineFortran 1.0.0 Released

Posted: 2006-10-22 23:42:00
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InlineFortran 1.0.0 has been released. InlineFortran allows for Fortran code to be embedded within Ruby scripts.

September 15, 2006

PGI Visual Fortran Available

Posted: 2006-09-15 00:22:00
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It has been announced that PGI Visual Fortran is now available. It integrates the PGI suite of 32-bit and 64-bit parallel Fortran compilers and tools into Microsoft Visual Studio 2005.

May 11, 2006

Intel Fortran Compiler 9.1 for Linux Released

Posted: 2006-05-11 11:43:00
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Intel Fortran Compiler 9.1 for Linux has been released.

This release includes: improved runtime performance optimizations, performance optimizations for the Core and Core 2 processors, support for additional Fortran 2003 features, and more.

Intel Visual Fortran 9.1 for Windows Released

Posted: 2006-05-11 11:39:00
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Intel Visual Fortran 9.1 for Windows has been released.

This release includes: support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, performance optimizations for the Core and Core 2 processors, improved runtime performance optimizations, support for additional Fortran 2003 features, and more.

April 30, 2006

Absoft Fortran Compiler v10 for 64-bit Windows Announced

Posted: 2006-04-30 23:33:00
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Absoft Fortan Compiler v10 for 64-bit Windows has been announced.

April 29, 2006

Open Watcom 1.5 Released

Posted: 2006-04-29 00:13:00
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Open Watcom 1.5 has been released. Open Watcom is an open-source continuation of the Watcom C, C++ and Fortran compilers.

This release includes: a __restrict keyword for the C compiler, new C warnings, optimization improvements, support for the C99 floating-point classification macros, support for the ISO/IEC TR 24731 Safer C Library, plus other changes and bugfixes.

January 19, 2006

Open Watcom 1.4 Released

Posted: 2006-01-19 23:53:00
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Open Watcom 1.4 has been released. Open Watcom is an open-source continuation of Watcom C, C++ and Fortran compilers.

A list of changes to the C and C++ compilers is available. This release includes: support for C99 designated initializers, support in the C++ compiler for the new template specialization syntax and partial support for partial specialization, support for the Microsoft fastcall calling convention, plus many other changes and fixes.

January 14, 2006

Trial Intel C++, Fortran Compilers for Intel-Based Macs Available

Posted: 2006-01-14 23:17:00
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Intel has announced that trial versions of their C++ and Fortran compilers for Intel-based Mac systems from Apple are now available.

The suite of development tools is expected to be available for purchase during the second quarter of 2006.

January 01, 2006

Five FORTRAN-Related Articles Available at the Computer History Museum

Posted: 2006-01-01 23:35:00

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Paul McJones has announced that five ACM-copyrighted articles concerning FORTRAN are now available at the History of FORTRAN and FORTRAN II web site of the Computer History Museum.

Included are articles such as "A Technological Review of the FORTRAN I Compiler", by F.E. Allen, and "The history of FORTRAN I, II and III", by John Backus.

November 22, 2005

PGI Workstation 6.1 Announced

Posted: 2005-11-22 23:50:00
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The Portland Group has announced that version 6.1 of their optimizing C, C++ and Fortran compilers will be available on December 15, 2005.

This release includes: support for generating unified binaries for Intel and AMD x64 processors, support for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 editions, in addition to other changes.