new Fortran compiler

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Dan Stephenson <stephedanospam.RemoveThis@mac.com> wrote:



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  > > Rumors that NASA has a new and very fast Fortran compiler for OSX (G4
  > > and G5) in beta.
  > > Has anybody tried it?
 >
 > No, but, why would NASA be in the compiler business? Or are they beta
 > testing it for someone?

Found out later it is from IBM. About to go into public beta.

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dano <dano45 DeleteThis @spamcop.net> wrote:



 >


  > >
   > > > Rumors that NASA has a new and very fast Fortran compiler for OSX (G4
   > > > and G5) in beta.
   > > > Has anybody tried it?
  > >
  > > No, but, why would NASA be in the compiler business? Or are they beta
  > > testing it for someone?
 >
 > Found out later it is from IBM. About to go into public beta.

Indeed xlf, xlc and xlC are in public beta for Mac OS X. And since NASA
has a pre-release Dual 2 GHz G5, some tests (very interesting ones) are
coming from there. The computational fluid dynamics program they use
runs quite a bit faster with it.

See an older story on slashdot (thursday I think) or on the macintosh
forum of ars-technica.com for more information and numbers.

Maarten
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