Operating system and hardware support
This section describes the operating systems and hardware that IBM® XL Fortran for AIX®, V15.1.3 supports.
IBM XL
Fortran for AIX, V15.1.3 supports
the following operating systems:
- AIX V6.1 TL 2 Service Pack 5 or later
- AIX V7.1
- AIX V7.2
- IBM i V7.1 PASE V7.1
- IBM i V7.2 PASE V7.2
See the README file and Before installing XL Fortran for a complete list of requirements.
The compiler, its libraries, and its generated object programs run on POWER5, POWER5+, POWER6®, POWER7®, POWER7+™, and POWER8® systems with the required software and disk space.
To exploit the various supported hardware configurations, the compiler provides options to tune the performance of applications according to the hardware type that runs the compiled applications.
