PGI Release 2013 Information and New Features

What new features are in the latest release?
What are the latest release versions?
How do I get the latest release?
How do I find out if my license will work with the current release?
How do I find out if I qualify for a current release license?
What is a subscription?
Any known problems with the current releases?
What problems have been fixed in this release?

PGI 2013 Features and Performance

PGI Compilers Language Support
- All new GNU-compatible C++ compiler includes the full suite of PGI optimizations plus support for CUDA-x86, OpenMP and OpenACC. New EDG 4.5 front-end supports many C++11 language features.
- New Fortran 2003 features include parameterized derived types, deferred type parameters and deferred character length.
Multi-core x64 Optimizations
- Multi-core x64 performance enhancements include industry leading OpenMP parallel performance on the new SPEC OMPG2012 benchmarks on the latest AVX-enabled processors from AMD and Intel.
- Floating point performance on x64 processors is up over 10% from the initial release of PGI 2012.
GPU Computing
- OpenACC—Expanded support for the OpenACC 1.0 specification and several new PGI extensions including support for multiple devices.
- CUDA Fortran—support for textures as well as support for dynamic parallelism and separate compilation on suitable CUDA-enabled hardware.
- All PGI Accelerator™ x64+accelerators compilers now target the latest NVIDIA Tesla K20 and K20X GPUs and now support CUDA 5.
PGI Tools
- PGDBG parallel MPI/OpenMP graphical debugging tool has an improved interface for displaying source code including a new user configurable disassembly display.
- PGI Visual Fortran is now integrated with Visual Studio 2012 and includes the Visual Studio 2012 shell.
Expanded Operating System Support
- RHEL 6.3, Fedora 17, SLES 11 SP2, SUSE 11.3, OpenSUSE 12.2, Ubuntu 12.10, Windows 8 and OS X Mountain Lion
Updated Documentation

Complete details are included in the PGI Release Notes and the PGI Visual Fortran® Release Notes.

What are the latest release versions?

The current PGI 2013 release versions are:

	PGI Workstation™ and PGI Server™ for Linux		13.9, released September 26, 2013
	PGI CDK® for Linux		13.9, released September 26, 2013
	PGI Workstation and PGI Server for Windows		13.9, released September 26, 2013
	PGI Visual Fortran for Windows		13.9, released September 26, 2013
	PGI Workstation for OS X		13.9, released September 26, 2013

Download the current release or download an older release from the PGI archive.

How do I get the latest release?

PGI products are available in the download section. There is also a link after you log in to your account.

How do I find out if my license will work with the current release?

Previously, a PGI license file had a field with 3.000, 3.100, 3.200, 3.300, 4.000, 4.100, 5.000, 5.100, 5.200, 6.000, 6.100, 6.200, 7.000, 7.100, 7.200, 8.000, 9.000 or 10.2 in it. This number represents the highest release this license will support along with all previous releases. (Note: Since 7.0, licenses are compatible with releases back to 5.1—older releases may need the older license format).

With the PGI 2010 release version 10.3, PGI license files use a form of your subscription expiration date as the release number. These licenses will work with any software that is issued before this expiration date. For example, a license with a subscription expiration date of December 25, 2010, will include "2010.1225" as the version in the license.dat file. A new PGI compiler release issued, for example, on June 9, 2010, and called version 10.6, will work with any license that has a subscription date of 2010.0601, or the first day of June 2010. The new compiler releases will work with any license that expires on the first day of the release month, or any date after that. Old releases also work with a new license format because their release version "date" (e.g. 7.200) is also 'before' the subscripton expriration date of 2010.1225.

How do I find out if I qualify for a current release license?

Your subscription information is summarized on your PIN management page. Click any PIN in the list for information about that PIN including subscription expiration date, release number and current license keys. Note that current release licenses use the expiration date of the subscription as the date of the newest release the license will support. If your subscription is current you will not need to generate a new license for a new release. A release for example, 10.5, which came out May 8, 2010, has a release version date of 2010.0501 (the first day of May). A license with subscription expiration date of June 14, 2011, will have a license with a FEATURE or PACKAGE line value of 2011.0614. This license should work with the 10.5 release, along with all releases that are released on or before June 30, 2010.

What is a subscription?

The PGI Subscription Service entitles the subscriber to new licenses for new releases. Typically, a subscription is valid for one year from date of purchase. New license purchases include 30 days of subscription service. If you did not purchase a subscription when you purchased your license, or if your subscription has expired, you can qualify for the current relase by bringing your subscription current. You may also wish to read the PGI Subscription Service Agreement.

Any known problems with the recent releases?

32-bit executables that use libpthreads may fail on 64-bit Linux systems because libpthreads reduces stack size to 2MB. This is a Linux limitation. libpthreads is used by routines compiled -mp or -Mconcur. 64-bit executables do not experience this limitation.
Some users linking with libpthreads (-mp or -Mconcur) have seen the error message symbol _h_errno, version GLIBC_2.2.5 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference This can be worked around with the environment variable LD_ASSUME_KERNEL export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1 or export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 for example.