F95/F90 compilers

[Craig Tierney]

On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 14:26, Josip Loncaric wrote:
> Glen Kaukola wrote:
> > Arthur H. Edwards wrote:
> > 
> >> I'm about to purchase a F95 compiler for a beowulf running Debian with
> >> mpich. I'm obviously looking for performance. I'm also looking for a
> >> compiler that doesn't choke or create garbage.
> >>
> > 
> > The Fortran compiler from Intel is free, as long as you're not going to 
> > be producing any commercial applications with it I think.  And our 
> > experience with it, is that even on an AMD processor the code that it 
> > produces runs faster than the code produced by our portland group compiler.
> 
> Agreed -- but at my old institute, we had pretty good luck with the 
> Portland Group Fortran.  Intel's Fortran can be faster, but 
> unfortunately, it sometimes generates incorrect code.  Some ifc 7.0 
> versions incorrectly handled equivalence statements -- which are 
> liberally used in many old Fortran packages.  I'm not sure if this has 
> been completely fixed even in the latest ifc 7.1 versions.
> 

And at times the Portland Group Fortran generates incorrect code
as well.  PG has a much longer history in high performance computing
so they better support some features that users are used to having.
Intel is trying to play catch up.  They are doing a good job.  I
try and keep both compilers around just in case I have a problem with
one or the other.

Craig

> Sincerely,
> Josip
> 
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