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<strong>Compiler</strong> <strong>Usage</strong> <strong>Guidelines</strong> <strong>for</strong> AMD<strong>64</strong> Plat<strong>for</strong>ms
2.4.4 PGI
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The Portland Group (PGI) Toolkits are composed of high per<strong>for</strong>mance C, C++, and/or Fortran
<strong>Compiler</strong>(s), a debugger, and a per<strong>for</strong>mance profiler <strong>for</strong> 32-bit and <strong>64</strong>-bit AMD<strong>64</strong> and EM<strong>64</strong>T
processor-based Linux. The latest PGI Edition 7 provides leading-edge application per<strong>for</strong>mance on
AMD<strong>64</strong> next-generation systems and supports features like auto-parallelization, OS native
multithreading, OpenMP multithreading models, and MPI programming <strong>for</strong> AMD<strong>64</strong> architecturebased
multicore shared-memory and distributed-memory cluster-based systems. The current version
(as of September 2007) is PGI Release 7.1.
2.5 <strong>Compiler</strong>s (32-<strong>Bit</strong>) <strong>for</strong> Microsoft ® Windows ®
The following companies provide 32-bit compilers <strong>for</strong> Microsoft Windows.
2.5.1 Intel
Intel provides C, C++ and Fortran compilers <strong>for</strong> x86 Microsoft Windows. The current version (as of
August 2007) is 10.0 This document also talks about two previous versions of the compiler, 9.1 and
8.1, because they are comparable in per<strong>for</strong>mance to the current version and are still in use.
2.5.2 Microsoft ®
Microsoft provides C/C++ compilers <strong>for</strong> x86 Microsoft Windows. The current version is Microsoft
Visual Studio 2008.
2.5.3 PGI
The Portland Group (PGI) Toolkits are composed of high per<strong>for</strong>mance C, C++, and/or Fortran
<strong>Compiler</strong>(s), a debugger, and a per<strong>for</strong>mance profiler <strong>for</strong> 32-bit and <strong>64</strong>-bit AMD<strong>64</strong> and EM<strong>64</strong>T
processor-based Windows plat<strong>for</strong>ms. The latest PGI Edition 7 provides leading-edge application
per<strong>for</strong>mance on AMD<strong>64</strong> next-generation systems and supports features like auto-parallelization, OS
native multithreading, OpenMP multithreading models, and MPI programming <strong>for</strong> AMD<strong>64</strong>
architecture-based multicore shared-memory and distributed-memory cluster-based systems. The
current version (as of Sept 2007) is PGI Release 7.1.
2.6 <strong>Compiler</strong>s (32-bit) <strong>for</strong> Sun Solaris
The following companies provide 32-bit compilers <strong>for</strong> Sun Solaris.
2.6.1 Sun
Sun provides C, C++, and Fortran compilers <strong>for</strong> x86 Solaris operating system. The current version (as
of August, 2007) is 5.9 and comes in the Sun Studio 12 developer tool suite.
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