Absoft Announces Availability and Support for IBM's High Performance XL Fortran Compiler for Macintosh OSX.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 20, 2004 Absoft Corporation has entered an OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and relationship with IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) through which Absoft is distributing IBM's XL Fortran compiler Noun 1. Fortran compiler - a compiler for programs written in FORTRAN compiling program, compiler - (computer science) a program that decodes instructions written in a higher order language and produces an assembly language program v8.1 for Macintosh PowerMac(TM) computers running Apple's OSX See Mac OS X. operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. . According to recent benchmarks the XL Fortran compiler generates the fastest executing Fortran code available for OSX. XL Fortran includes support for OpenMP and auto parallelization common in High Performance Computing (HPC (Handheld PC) A palmtop computer that weighs less than one pound and runs specialized versions of popular applications. Microsoft coined the term for its Windows CE operating system, which is an abbreviated version of Windows. See Pocket PC. ) applications and other compute-intensive tasks. Under this agreement, Absoft provides technical support and includes its Fx Fortran Debugger for improved debugging capabilities. Programmers achieve significantly increased productivity by using XL Fortran with Absoft's Fx Debugger, the only debugger on OSX designed for Fortran. XL Fortran v8.1 runs under OSX on IBM's G5 PowerPC(TM) processor. The product's suggested retail price ranges from $999 for commercial licenses to $399 for academic licenses. Complete product details and ordering information are available at www.absoft.com. "Absoft is committed to continue offering customers the most reliable and highest performing Fortran development tools available," said Wood Lotz, President of Absoft. "XL Fortran is a great compiler and generates very fast code. Its command line interface will appeal to Unix/Linux programmers. For more graphically oriented users Absoft will support XL Fortran from within our Interactive Development Environment (IDE) in its next release, providing OSX users with maximum ease of development and the fastest executing code possible for the Macintosh." Absoft is the most established Fortran provider in the Macintosh community with more than 20 years experience. XL Fortran is a full implementation of the ISO/ANSI Fortran 95 language implementation and supports all F77 standards as well. XL Fortran includes extensions such as full support for the OpenMP Fortran API Version 2.0, those from SAA (Systems Application Architecture) A set of interfaces designed to cross all IBM platforms from PC to mainframe. Introduced by IBM in 1987, SAA includes the Common User Access (CUA), the Common Programming Interface for Communications (CPI-C) and Common Communications Fortran, and some features from the Fortran 2000 draft standard. It also makes programming easier by shifting tasks such as error checking, array processing and memory allocation from the programmer to the compiler. About Absoft Corporation Absoft Corporation, headquartered in Rochester Hills, Michigan Rochester Hills is a city in Oakland County of the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 68,825. The City of Rochester in bounded on the north, south, and west by Rochester Hills. Rochester College is located in Rochester Hills. , has been a Fortran market leader since 1979. Absoft developed the first commercial 32-bit Fortran compilers for Macintosh and WindowsNT, the first commercial Fortran compiler for Linux, and has provided Fortran solutions for leading Unix vendors including: IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Motorola, Cray Research, Sun, Silicon Graphics and MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second) The execution speed of a computer. For example, .5 MIPS is 500,000 instructions per second; 100 MIPS is a hundred million instructions per second. . Absoft is the only company offering complete, source-compatible Fortran solutions on all mass-market computing platforms including Macintosh, Windows, and Linux. For more information about Absoft products or services, visit http://www.absoft.com, e-mail sales@absoft.com, or call 248-853-0050. Trademarks: Absoft is a trademark of Absoft, Corporation. All rights reserved. IBM is a trademark of IBM Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Apple and OSX are trademarks of Apple Corporation. All other company/product names and service marks may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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