

PGI Server products are offered in configurations identical to PGI Workstation, but include network floating multi–user licenses. The product and license server are on the same local machine. The characteristics of each version are as follow:Īll PGI Workstation products include a node–locked single–user license, meaning one user at a time can compile on the one system on which the PGI Workstation compilers and tools are installed.

Two different versions are available for each compiler: Workstation or Server. We will discuss the licensing procedure later on. In the address below, you can download, in addition to the Fortran compilers, a whole set of PGI compilers ( C/C++ and CUDA, among others), as well as debugging and memory evaluation tools. Please note that the activation Email from PGI could be delayed, we had to wait for almost 24-hours to receive it! To proceed, first you have to create an account on the PGI website, in order to download the compiler. PGI compilers incorporate global optimization, vectorization, software pipelining, and shared-memory parallelization capabilities targeting both Intel and AMD processors. or PGI, a company that produces a set of commercially available compilers for high-performance computing systems, and which is a wholly owned subsidiary of NVIDIA Corporation. PGI Compilers are products of the Portland Group, Inc. The PGI Fortran compiler is also available for Mac OS X, and a link to download and install it is provided here.

Honestly, I think that, whether you do have your favorite Fortran compiler or not, it is always interesting to check how your applications behave to different compilers.Īfter the GNU and the Intel Fortran compilers, we will describe here how to install the PGI Fortran compiler on Linux Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
