Intel Visual Fortran 9.1 Now Available

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Intel Visual Fortran 9.1 for Windows* is now available. New features include:

- Support for Microsoft* Visual Studio 2005
- Improved run-time performance optimizations
- Support for additional features from Fortran 2003
- Optimizations to enhance performance on the new Intel Core and Intel Core 2 processors

Please see the product release notes for further details.

Customers can download the new version from Intel Premier Support at no additional charge. (Downloads through Intel Premier Support will be available later today.) FTP downloads are available through the following links:

- Intel Visual Fortran Compiler 9.1 for Windows - Standard Edition
- Intel Visual Fortran Compiler 9.1 for Windows - Professional Edition

You must have a current support license to install the version 9.1 compiler.

Please report any problems with the 9.1 compiler to Intel Premier Support.

Message Edited by Steve_Lionel on 05-10-2006 09:32 AM

[jd_weeks]

I looked for a link to download release notes but couldn't find one. Can you point us at it?

[Steven_L_Intel1]

You'll have to wait for it to be posted to Premier Support. Or download the package and the release notes are inside. I expect Premier Support to have the files later today. There will also be an IA-32 only subset package which is smaller.

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Release notes are now available from Premier Support.

Message Edited by Steve_Lionel on 05-09-2006 01:43 PM

[Steven_L_Intel1]

IA-32-only smaller package is now on Premier.

[ming_jin]

What is the relationship with 9.0? As 9.0 users what we can do with the new 9.1?

[Steven_L_Intel1]

It's .1 better!

Seriously, read the release notes - they'll tell you what's new. The biggie for Windows users is VS2005 support. There's also improved optimization and a new optimization mode for the upcoming Intel Core 2 processors. Oh, and uninitialied variable checking now works in any application type and not just when run under the VS debugger.

But more to the point is that 9.0 is no more - 9.1 replaces it. So you can consider 9.1 as the next series of maintenance updates to 9.0. If you are a 9.0 user with a current support license, then you can download and install 9.1. We don't license by version but by "support date".

[TimP]

The new option
-fp:precise
(conservative optimization without so much performance loss) is another important one.

[TimP]

From the URL, some of us got what may be the "professional" version, which supports IMSL, and will not install with our licenses. On premier.intel.com, the standard version is available, both in a 32-bit Windows only variety, and a 3-architecture version.

[ggveldkamp2]

Is there a list of resolved issues? The release notes say to look for a file called w_fc_p_9.1.xxx_README but I can't find it.

Guido

[Steven_L_Intel1]

The Professional Edition should be posted to Premier soon, as will the README.

[Steven_L_Intel1]

I edited the initial post to correct the FTP download links. The one for the Standard Edition was getting you a Professional Edition download. The links are now correct (I hope!)

[AndrewC]

I downloaded both the C++ 9.1 and Fortran 9.1 full packages. On XP 64 (Dell dual-core x86) , the C++ installer worked perfectly. But the fortran installer hangs/stalls at launch - no dialog comes up.

I rebooted the machine to no avail. Same problem. Start the installer, and it is visible in the task manager but you do not get the initial install screen.

The workaround was to go to the ia32 area of the expanded installer ( in Intel/Download) and run Setup.exe from there directly.

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Please report the problem to Intel Premier Support.

[AndrewC]

Will do...

[davidshort]

I guess I'm just stuck.

I tried to install 9.1 and end up with no error messages, but it doesn't actually ever seem to integrate into any of the versions of visual studio I have available.

I try to go search the release notes, but they seem to be at premier.intel.com and even after clearing cookies I can't get there.

[Steven_L_Intel1]

The release notes are unpacked into C:Program FilesIntelDownloadIntelFortranCompiler91 You want the Installation Guide which is also there. There are also links to these from the first install screen.

My guess is that you missed the warning that the 9.0 compiler integration was still installed. Please remove it from Add/Remove Programs and try again.

[davidshort]

As usual your guess was a good one.

Thank you Steve.

[Jugoslav_Dujic]

Out of curiosity, why is current version numbered 9.1.024? I'd expect either 03x if numbering were continued from 9.0, or something like 00x if it were restarted. 024 is neither here nor there...

[TimP]

The numbering carries on from the 9.1 beta compiler sequence, with a majority of the numbers not seeing the light of day.

[jd_weeks]

I must be stupid or blind or both :)

I keep seeing references to a separately-downloadable README and release notes, but I can't find them!