Fortran - Latest Intel Fortran?

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Latest Intel Fortran?

David Fumento

2004-05-18, 1:32 pm

Steve Lionel wrote:

> Let me suggest that you log into Premier Support (!), click on Downloads,
> and download the 8.0.047 kit. You probably have the original 8.0 release
> from back in December (built in October.) The fact that evaluation users
> are not pointed to a current copy at first is an issue I have raised....
> Note that you will have to first uninstall the kit you have. There is a
> later version, 8.0.048 which is a patch to be applied to 8.0.047.

When I click on downloads, I get as latest version 8.0.046 dated about 4/26.

Are there later versions that aren't showing up. NCSA also has 8.0.046
as latest version which they installed May 5th.

I am interested in latest version because according to Etnus, Totalview
doesn't work properly with Intel Fortran Version 8 because of some
compiler problems

Rich Townsend

2004-05-18, 2:32 pm

David Fumento wrote:
> Steve Lionel wrote:
>
>
>
> When I click on downloads, I get as latest version 8.0.046 dated about
> 4/26.
>
> Are there later versions that aren't showing up. NCSA also has 8.0.046
> as latest version which they installed May 5th.
>
> I am interested in latest version because according to Etnus, Totalview
> doesn't work properly with Intel Fortran Version 8 because of some
> compiler problems
>

I find the same. I suspect the reason is that the Windows and Linux
versions of the compiler are not in sync; my Premier account is for the
Linux version, and therefore I see only the downloads for Linux, which
appear to have v8.0.046 as the most recent. I'm sure Steve can clarify this.

cheers,

Rich

Steve Lionel

2004-05-18, 2:32 pm

On Tue, 18 May 2004 13:34:11 -0400, Rich Townsend <rhdt@barVOIDtol.udel.edu>
wrote:

>I find the same. I suspect the reason is that the Windows and Linux
>versions of the compiler are not in sync; my Premier account is for the
>Linux version, and therefore I see only the downloads for Linux, which
>appear to have v8.0.046 as the most recent. I'm sure Steve can clarify this.

Correct - the version numbers are not in sync across Linux and Windows.
8.0.046 is the current version on Linux.

The package numbers are incremented as new packages are built, and the release
of the Professional Edition on Windows caused an extra two packages. I
understand this is confusing and will suggest rationalizing this.

You can tell the actual compiler version by doing:

ifort -what somefile.f90

You need an existing file to get the full version out. You'll see something
like this:

---
Intel(R) Fortran Compiler for 32-bit applications, Version 8.0 Build
20040415Z
Package ID: w_fc_pc_8.0.047_pe048.1
Copyright (C) 1985-2004 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.

Intel Visual Fortran 8.0-4307
---

There are three interesting items here.

The first is the Build, which is the date on which this compiler was built.
The second is the package ID - this identifies what you installed to get to
this version - here, it shows that I applied the 048 patch to 047.
The last line is the compiler internal edit level number, which is incremented
as changes were made to the Fortran front-end. (The numbering started at 1
years ago with DVF, so it's not as if we've had 4300 changes since the 8.0
release!)

Currently, Intel builds a new compiler package every few w

s.

Steve Lionel
Software Products Division
Intel Corporation
Nashua, NH

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