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Release 6.0 PGI Compilers and Performance:

• Improvements of 8% - 15% on standard benchmarks including
  SPECCPU 2000, Polyhedron, NAS Benchmarks and STREAM
• Improved efficiency on 64-bit applications
• Enhanced C/C++ pointer target optimizations
• Significantly enhanced overall C/C++ performance
• PGC++ now supports static objects larger than 2GB
• Profile and data feedback and optimizations
• Interprocedural optimizations on libraries
• Inlining of routines from libraries
• Fortran 95 pointer and runtime optimizations
• SSE/SSE2 vectorization of a wider class of loops
• Enhanced loop fusion
• Enhanced vector idiom recognition
• Improved parallel SMP/OpenMP efficiency
• Process/CPU affinity in SMP/OpenMP applications
• Fine-grained control of prefetch instructions
• Hand-tuned math intrinsics library routines
• Simplified g++ style template instantiation
• Position-independent static PGI runtime libraries
• EDG C++ front end release 3.4.1
• Improved compilation speed
• Over 80 user-requested enhancements and corrections

• PGDBG Enhancements
  • Support for core files
  • Support for viewing OpenMP private data
  • Fortran 95 language support enhancements
  • C++ language support enhancements
  • Auto-detection of thread libraries
  • Process attach
  • Improved register displays
  • Simplified array and aggregate data type displays
• PGPROF Enhancements
  • Support for gprof-style trace files
  • Hardware counters-based profiling using PAPI
  • Function, line and assembly-level profiling
  • Sample-based MPI profiling
  • Improved parallel OpenMP/MPI scalability analysis
  • Function performance histograms
• Updated PGI User's Guide and PGI Tools Guide
• All-new PGI Fortran Reference manual

• Support for the latest Linux releases including SuSE 9.2, SLES 9, Fedora Core 3, and RHEL 4.0
• Provisional support for 64-bit Micorsoft® Windows® XP and Windows Server™ 2003

• PGI optimized ACML 2.5 Math Library supported on all targets
• Tunded intrinsics libraries for 32-bit and 64-bit targets
• Pre-validation of de facto standard support libraries including NetCDF,
  F90 OpenGL, ATLAS, ScaLAPACK, MPI-CH and LAM MPI
• Pre-validation of POP, MM5, CAM, MOM4, WRF2, AMBER, CHARMM, GAMESS, MOLPRO, MCNP5 and TBMD
• Updated applications porting/tuning guides

Complete details are included in the PGI Workstation 6.0-1 Release and Installation Notes and the PGI CDK 6.0 Release and Installation Notes.

The latest PGI® Workstation release for Linux is 6.0-1 The latest PGI® CDK™ release is 6.0. The latest PGI Workstation release for Microsoft* Windows* release is 6.0-1.

The PGI Workstation products are available in the download section of this website. The latest PGI CDK release is mailed to current customers that are on subscription, and new customers that order the product. The PGI CDK is too large to be downloaded.

The PGI Workstation products will install in your CDK installation directory, and will replace the files needed to update the CDK compilers. The CDK license will enable the compilers and tools to support the CDK features.

The license file will have a field with 1.700, 3.000, 3.100, 3.200, 3.300, 4.000, 4.100, 5.000, 5.100, 5.200, or 6.000 in it. This is the highest release this license will support. For the current release, you should have a 6.000 . Note: Any release prior to the value in the field should work with the license.

The subscription information is available by going to the online key generation system. If you go online with the access codes (user name and password) for your account, and link to the key generation process, you will find entries in the information display that indicate when your subscription expires and your current release. Note: If you qualify for release 6.0-1, for example, you will also qualify for 6.0-2, 6.0-3, and so on when/if they occur.

A subscription entitles the user to get new licenses for new minor releases. Whatever product you have purchased a license for, a subscription fee will allow you to upgrade to the latest release for up to a year. If you do not purchase a subscription, you are allowed an upgrade for up to 60 days after purchase. If your subscription expires, you can become a current subscriber by paying the subscription charge over the lapsed period.

The access codes are sent when you purchase your compilers. An order acknowledgement email is sent with the codes. If you lose/forget them, email PGI License Support and request your original order acknowledgement.

• The 6.0 release, currently available in the download section will now support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, and Fedora Core 3, for 64-bit on AMD64 ot EM64T.
• Further information can be found in the 6.0 Release Notes located in the documentation section.

• None known at this time.