Intel Visual Fortran 9.0 Now Available

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Intel Visual Fortran 9.0 has now been released. New features include:

• More features from Fortran 2003, including command line and system environment intrinsics
• The ability to INQUIRE about directories
• Full support for OpenMP 2.5, including WORKSHARE
• Multi-file routine interface checking
• Run-time detection of uninitialized variables
• Improved optimization at the default level (/O2)
• Loops can now be both vectorized and parallelized
• Software-based Speculative Precomputation optimization helps with shared-cache processors
• Improved debugger support for optimized code
• IMSL Fortran Library (Professional Edition only) now supports Intel EM64T
• Ability to view PARAMETER constants in the debugger (not working in the initial release - will be available in the first update later in June.)
• Improved installation and license acquisition process

In collaboration with HP, which recently announced that they would discontinue sales of CVF as of December 31, 2005, we have brought back the special CVF Migration pricing, and expanded it to include floating licenses. For more information, see our Upgrade from CVF page.

For more information on what is new in 9.0, see the Release Notes and the Product Information page.

[dave_frank]

Steve,

To claim "more features from Fortran 2003" surely there are more features thancommand line, environmental variables, right?

Sooo, how about a link to view them, orenumerate them here or preferably in CLF (where no-one seems to know either).

[Steven_L_Intel1]

The command line and environment variable routines are the most significant, though I'll certainly agree that they aren't "blockbusters". But hey, it's progress. There are various "little" things, for example, being able to read strings such as "NaN" and "Inf" in formatted input. I didn't mean to imply that we had added a huge chunk of major F2003 features. We're doing our planning now for what comes next from F2003, based in part on the comments we've gotten from customers as to what is important to them.

When I get caught up from being away, I'll see what I can add in c.l.f.

[sumitm]

Steve,

I had a question. Is it possible to now saveimage as anything other than windows bitmap. I would like to save them as png or jpg. Right now I run a real time application which saves images to the network over an wireless connection. The bmp files are 3MB each. My application temporarily freezes each time I write files and the recovers again. My C++ expert colleagues show me how easy it is to save their images as 30kb png's. Did we make any advancements in this front in version 9.0.

Thanks

[Steven_L_Intel1]

No - SAVEIMAGE is layered on the Win32 APIs for bitmaps and there is no additional support for saving as other file types. Aren't there routines generally available to convert bitmaps to GIF, JPEG and PNG?

[sumitm]

Steve,

Can you or anyone else point me to such a fortran subroutine.

I just have a delphi command line executeable that converts bmps to jpgs but I still have to write a bmp file locally to do that. Any other elegant way of doing it in fortran only.

So what I am looking for is after I paint my graphics on the screen I want to save it as a jpeg from within my fortran application, not with Paintshop pro etc.

Thanks

[Steven_L_Intel1]

I don't know of a Fortran subroutine, specifically, but it looks as if one could use the free gd library with a bit of effort to translate the C headers into Fortran. I can't easily find a reference saying that someone has already done it.

[anthonyrichards]

I just spent time showing how I save a bitmap as a JPEg, but the
post was screwed up by editing the included source, 
so I will post seperately. This frequently happens, 
Steve, if you are watching. 
The message board software need attention in this respect. 
Attachments also frequently fail to appear...

Message Edited by anthonyrichards on 06-23-2005 01:05 AM