Since Wood is not a member of the list, I am posting
this for him.

To add a little bit: my impression is that there is
no evidence that Absoft does not intend to "keep up",
although I have no special information about that.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Fortran 95 on Opteron
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 09:23:31 -0500
From: Wood Lotz <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]

Peter Shenkin wrote:

> Our normal Absoft x86 builds, done on Athlon
> or PIII, run just fine, and benchmark very well, on Opteron.

  > The problem I have with Absoft is that I am not sure what kind of
development
  > is going on there. Their frontend is Cray's, and I am not sure what
happens
  > in the back? A very important thing for me is that the compiler be
maintained
  > and upgraded as Fortran evolves. Being involved in the development of
the new
  > standards I am not sure Absoft is interested in keeping up. On the
other hand
  > I am more confident that NAG, IBM and Intel will (eventually) get to
F2x. But
  > feel free to correct me.
  > Thanks,
  > Aleksnadar



Absoft has a commercial release of Fortran95 for Opteron - available now.
Compiler runs native on Opteron and can generate 64 or 32 bit executables.
Compiler is full ANSI 95 and supports all popular F77 legacy extensions.
Can be run in F77 or F90/95 mode. Takes full advantage of AMD64's large
address space.
Compatible with AMD64 releases from Red Hat and SuSE,
meets LSB (Linux Standard Base) specifications. Also compatible with
VAST auto parallel tools
and TotalView and DDT distributed debuggers.

Fully source compatible with other Absoft compilers.
Details at: http://www.absoft.com/opteron.html
Trial versions available - contact [log in to unmask]

Wood Lotz
Absoft Corporation
2781 Bond Street
Rochester Hills, MI 48309 USA
http://www.absoft.com





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