SGI has made its Pro64 compiler technology available to the open source community in its ongoing attempt to establish Linux as a commercially viable platform. It has released several Pro64 compilers to the software development community.
These Linux compilers, which were recently demonstrated at Intel's Spring 2000 Developer Forum in California, contain additional optimisations that take advantage of Itanium's new features in addition to other public compiler implementations. This technology will support development of high performance IA-64 Linux applications and is another important step toward delivery of production Linux solutions on IA-64.
"The continued optimisation of these software tools will enable application developers to realise the potential of Intel's Itanium processor," says Ron Curry, director of marketing for Intel's IA-64 processor division. "The Pro64 suite release demonstrates SGI's compiler expertise and their progress towards enabling high performance IA-64 Linux software."
"Once again SGI is taking the lead in pushing Linux to the next level with the release of this enhanced compiler suite and its source to the developer community," says Jan Silverman, VP of Computer Systems at SGI. " Our ILOG CPLEX is one of the first commercial software applications to run on the IA-64 platform, we've been using the Pro64 compiler ourselves and have realised a significant performance boost in CPLEX running on the IA-64 platform."
SGI's C, C++ and Fortran 90 compilers use the company's code generators, designed to produce performance enhancements in both compute and data-intensive applications. The compiler suite represents ongoing work that SGI and the Linux developer community will continue to enhance to deliver optimised performance when production Itanium processors arrive later this year.
The compiler source is being released to the Linux developer community under standard GPL licensing. The latest information and updates for the SGI Pro64 compilers can be found at http://oss.sgi.com/projects/Pro64.
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