PGI High Performance Computing Compilers Coming to IBM POWER Systems - Seite 2

"IBM's Linux and x86 HPC customers have long had the luxury of leveraging the best capabilities and features from multiple HPC compiler solutions," said Dave Turek, vice president, Technical Computing, OpenPOWER at IBM. "With the availability of PGI compilers alongside the widely used IBM XL optimizing compilers for POWER8, our customers will now have this same flexibility and advantage on current and next-generation IBM POWER System platforms as well."

Key features of the PGI compilers and tools for IBM POWER-based systems will include:

• OpenACC® directives for accelerators - Comprehensive support for OpenACC features in the PGI Accelerator native Fortran 2003, C11 and C++11 compilers on the latest generation of GPU accelerators from NVIDIA®, including support for unified memory.
• PGI CUDA Fortran extensions - Feature parity with CUDA® Fortran on Linux/x86 platforms, offering the flexibility and power of the NVIDIA CUDA programming model in a native Fortran compiler for GPU-accelerated POWER systems.
• Faster OpenMP performance - PGI compilers deliver an average of 75 percent faster performance on the latest SPEC OMP2012 benchmark suite, compared to GCC 4.8 using the latest AVX-enabled multi-core x64 processors from Intel and AMD.
• PGI optimization features - Fortran 2003, C11 and C++11 compilers with the full range of PGI multi-core optimizations including comprehensive loop optimizations, memory hierarchy optimizations, SIMD vectorization, function inlining, inter-procedural analysis and optimization, profile feedback and more.

For a complete list of the features and capabilities of PGI compilers and tools, visit www.pgroup.com/support/new_rel.htm.

Availability and Free Trial
NVIDIA will announce the availability of POWER support in the PGI compilers at a future date. PGI 2014 with x86 support is available today directly from NVIDIA and authorized resellers. New users can register for a free 30-day trial of PGI 2014 at www.pgroup.com.

About PGI Software
An NVIDIA Corporation brand, PGI software includes high-performance parallel Fortran, C and C++ compilers and tools for workstations, servers and clusters based on x64 processors from Intel and AMD, and HPC accelerators from NVIDIA and AMD. More information is available at www.pgroup.com, [e-mail] or by calling [phone].