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IBM TO RESELL STMICROELECTRONICS PGI COMPILERS

The Portland Group Compiler Technology team of STMicroelectronics announced an agreement under which IBM will resell PGIÒ Fortran, C and C++ compilers and development tools for a new line of IBM Departmental Supercomputing Solutions based on AMD64 and IA32 processors running Linux. These production-quality compilers and tools are used by scientists and engineers to run high- performance computing applications for complex modeling and simulations in weather forecasting, geophysical processing, aerodynamic simulation and related fields. The PGI compilers and tools are highly optimized for both 64- bit AMD Opteron processors and the latest Intel PentiumÒ 4 and XeonÒ processors, providing a uniformly optimized set of production-quality development tools for the processors which power the fastest-growing science and engineering hardware platforms.

"The process of procuring software packages separate from an HPC hardware system can often be difficult and time-consuming," said Douglas Miles, director of Portland Laboratory, Advanced Systems Technology, STMicroelectronics. "Under this agreement, customers who purchase AMD64 or IA32 processor-based systems from IBM can now easily include a widely-used and integrated set of high-performance compilers and development tools that enable porting, debugging and tuning of parallel science and engineering applications for IBM systems."

"Providing IBM customers with an established and uniform set of programming tools for our new Departmental Supercomputing Solutions is critical," said Dave Turek, Vice President, Deep Computing, IBM. "The Portland Group delivers production-quality compilers and tools to Linux HPC customers and is committed to optimizing their compilers for both AMD64 and IA32 processor-based systems."

The most current PGI CDK Cluster Development Kit 5.1 release includes the PGF77Ò, PGF90, PGHPFÒ, PGCCÒ and PGC++ compilers, the PGDBGÒ graphical parallel debugger, and the PGPROFÒ graphical parallel performance profiler. The PGI compilers and tools are fully parallel-enabled, with support for native compilation, profiling and debugging of OpenMP parallel, thread- parallel or MPI-parallel distributed applications engineered for today's multi-processor workstations, servers and clusters. The release 5.1 versions of the PGI compilers and tools support the new architectural features of AMD Opteron processor-based 64-bit systems. PGDBG 5.1 offers improved load times and event handling on large applications, improved thread handling, source- level debugging of code from shared libraries, and examination of MPI message queues.

"Mature development compilers and tools from PGI symbolize the unstoppable force being led by AMD and the open source community towards ubiquitous 64-bit computing," said Marty Seyer, vice president and general manager of AMD's Microprocessor Business Unit. "These powerful tools are critical for Linux software developers to fully exploit the scalability, large memory space and performance capabilities offered by AMD64 architecture."