What IBM XL Fortran for AIX can do for your business
IBM® XL Fortran for AIX® is a compiler that facilitates the creation and maintenance of applications written in Fortran for IBM Power Systems™. It generates code that leverages the capabilities of POWER8® and the latest POWER9™ architectures and maximizes your hardware utilization. IBM XL Fortran for AIX optimizes your infrastructure on IBM Power Systems, supporting extensive numerical, scientific and high-performance computing.
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Maximize your Power hardware ROI
Capitalizes on the POWER8 and POWER9 architectures; offer automatic parallelization of sequential programs to exploit modern multi-core processors.
Optimize application performance
Provides leading optimization technologies including single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) parallel processing, OpenMP 3.1 full support and 4.0 partial support, and profile-driven optimization.
Migrate applications to Power easily
Adheres with the international programming language standards, including Fortran 2003, a subset of Fortran 2008, and language interoperability standards.
Improve developer productivity
Increases usability by providing diagnostic reports and symbolic debugger support.
Obtain world-class IBM support
Comes with superior IBM service and support.
IBM XL Fortran for AIX key features
- Exploitation of POWER8 and the latest POWER9 architectures
- Optimize up to level 5
- Shared memory parallelization
- Symbolic debugger support
- Language standard compliance
- High performance libraries
- Diagnostic reports
- Vector intrinsic procedures
Which option is right for you?
Perpetual license - Authorized user
One license per unique user
Perpetual license - Concurrent user
Shared access with multiple users
Monthly license (NEW) – VPC
Monthly license charged per virtual processor core (VPC)