System prerequisites

Ensure that your system meets all prerequisites before installing the product. Failure to meet the prerequisites will cause the installation or configuration of the compiler to fail.

The requirements for installing IBM® XL Fortran for Linux, V16.1 are listed below:

Supported platforms

You can use any of the following little endian operating systems supported by the IBM Power Systems™ servers:

Ubuntu Server 16.04
Ubuntu Server 18.04
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 (SLES 12)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 Service Pack 3 (SLES 12 SP3)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 (RHEL 7.3)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 (RHEL 7.4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 for Power® Little Endian (POWER9™)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 (RHEL 7.5)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 for Power Little Endian (POWER9)
Community Enterprise Operating System 7 (CentOS 7)

Note: To compile CUDA Fortran programs or programs that contain code used to offload computation to the NVIDIA GPUs, you must use a system that satisfies the installation requirements of the CUDA Toolkit. See the NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit website for more information.

NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit 9.2 with support for IBM Power Little Endian (POWER9) is required for the compilation and linking process for programs that use OpenMP 4.5 or CUDA Fortran to offload computation to the NVIDIA GPUs. CUDA Toolkit 9.2 with support for IBM Power Little Endian (POWER9) is available from NVIDIA.

More operation systems will be supported in later releases or fix packs. For more information, check Fix list for XL Fortran for Linux.

Hardware requirements

You can use any IBM Power Systems server as long as it is supported by your operating system distribution. For a complete list of the IBM Power Systems servers, see http://www.ibm.com/systems/power/hardware/.

Approximately 230 MB for product packages
Minimum of 2 GB hard drive space for paging
Minimum of 512 MB for temporary files
2 GB RAM minimum; 4 GB or more RAM recommended

Note: High levels of optimization and large applications can require more space for paging and temporary files, and can require more RAM.

To verify that you have enough hard disk space available, see Verifying the amount of hard disk space available.

Software requirements

To determine which GNU and Perl packages are required to run the compiler on your operating system, consult the relevant table below. To verify that the required packages are installed, see Verifying that the required GNU and Perl packages are installed.

Table 1. Required minimum versions of GNU and Perl packages for the Ubuntu 16.04 and Ubuntu 18.04 operating systems
Package name	Version requirements
gcc	7.3.0
g++	7.3.0
libc6	2.27
libstdc++6	7.3.0
libgcc1	8
perl	5.26.1

Table 2. Required minimum versions of GNU and Perl packages for the SLES 12 and SLES 12 SP3 operating systems
Package name	Version requirements
gcc	4.8
gcc-c++	4.8
glibc	2.19
libgcc_s1	4.8.3
libstdc++6	4.8.3
perl	5.18.2

Table 3. Required minimum versions of GNU and Perl packages for the RHEL 7.3, RHEL 7.4, RHEL 7.4 for Power Little Endian (POWER9), RHEL 7.5, RHEL 7.5 for Power Little Endian (POWER9), and CentOS 7 operating systems
Package name	Version requirements
gcc	4.8.3
gcc-c++	4.8.3
glibc	2.17
libgcc	4.8.3
libstdc++	4.8.3
perl	5.16.3

To view the online documentation for IBM XL Fortran for Linux, V16.1, you need the following environment and tools:

A graphical desktop environment (such as K Desktop Environment or GNOME) that supports web browsers and PDF viewers
A frames-capable HTML browser (to access help and other web pages)
A PDF viewer (to access PDF documentation)

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