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IBM XL Fortran V8.1 for Linux now adds support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3!

IBM XL Fortran Version 8.1 for Linux is fully compliant to Fortran 77, Fortran 90 and Fortran 95 standards. The compiler, based on the mature compiler technology of the IBM XL Fortran V8.1 for AIX compiler, now supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3 and UnitedLinux V1.0 distributions, including SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 (SLES 8), Turbolinux Enterprise Server 8, and Conectiva Linux Enterprise Edition 8.

Product overview
IBM XL Fortran V8.1 for Linux includes:

  • Support for Linux distributions operating on IBM  iSeries and pSeries hardware platforms, including:
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3
    • UnitedLinux V1.0 distributions, including:
      • SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 (SLES 8)
      • Turbolinux Enterprise Server 8
      • Conectiva Linux Enterprise Edition 8
  • Fully compliant to Fortran 77, Fortran 90 and Fortran 95 standards
  • Partial support for the Fortran 2003 draft standard
  • Support for OpenMP Fortran API V2.0
  • Industry leading performance and optimizations leveraged from AIX
  • Support for the IBM POWER3, POWER4 and PowerPC architectures
  • Automatic and explicit parallelization of program code
  • Symbolic debugging support with gdb
  • 32-bit and 64-bit support
  • Support for IBM PowerPC Symmetric Multi-Processing (SMP) architecture
  • IBM and industry language extensions

Documentation
The following documentation is included with IBM XL Fortran V8.1 for Linux:

  • Memo to Users
  • README
  • User's Guide
  • Language Reference
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