Intel Visual Fortran Professional Edition - Pricing and Upgrades - Page 3

Steven_L_Intel1 · ‎03-09-2004

Back in December, when Intel Visual Fortran was announced, a Professional Edition that adds the IMSL* 5.0 libraries from Visual Numerics was described. Pricing was given as $1399 for a new purchase, or $849 if upgrading from CVF Pro (the upgrade was said to be a limited time offer.)

Since then, we have had users ask about upgrades from Intel Visual Fortran Standard Edition. It took a while to get the details straightened out, but we now have upgrades and pricing set. Resellers are just now learning about these, so please be patient with them if they haven't seen the changes yet.

Intel Visual Fortran Professional Edition has all the features of the Standard Edition and adds the IMSL 5.0 libraries from Visual Numerics. (CVF had IMSL 4.0). New features and enhancements in IMSL compared to CVF Pro include:

Many new algorithms, including new statistical time series routines
New interfaces available with optional arguments, allowing for greater control and simplified development (source compatible with existing programs)
Dynamic Link Library now provided
OpenMP and SMP support
Support of Intel Math Kernel Library (purchased separately)for improved performance
Includes no-charge run-time license for deployment on systems with no more than 4 CPUs
Full technical support from Intel (in CVF, technical support was not included)

Pricing:

New purchase: $1199 "sale" price through 6/30/2004, $1399 thereafter
New academic purchase: $649
Upgrade from CVF Professional Edition, $849 (available from resellers only, qualification done by resellers). This upgrade offer expires 6/30/2004.
Upgrade from Intel Visual Fortran Standard: $700 through 6/30/2004, $900 thereafter (New option)

Each purchase includes one year of support and product updates at no additional charge. Support can be renewed for another yearthereafter for $649.

Academic upgrade pricingand floating licenses forthe Professional Editionare not available. Please contact Visual Numerics directly (Matt Prentice, mprentice@vni.com) to ask about other IMSL licensing options, including large-system run-time licenses.

Availability is expected to be on or about March 31, 2004. Initial availability will be download only, with CD product to follow a few weeks later.

As you will have noted, we have temporarily lowered the "new purchase" price for the Professional Edition. If you have already placed an order with a reseller at the higher price, please contact them to have the price adjusted.

Lastly, please note that the special $200 upgrade from CVF to Intel Visual Fortran Standard Edition expires 3/31/2004.

Please let me know if you have questions about any of the above.

Message Edited by sblionel on 03-10-2004 09:48 AM

davidspurr · ‎05-14-2004

Having just returned to a programming project, I checked this site to find out when IFV8 would be available, only to discover that the special $200 upgrade from CVF to Intel Visual Fortran Standard Edition expired 3/31/2004 !!

About 6 months ago when I last looked at the Forum I noted the failure of Intel / Compaq to advise registered users about the release of CVF 6.6C, despite having signed up to receive such messages.

Steve replied (11-18-2003) that they intended to notify users of the release of 6.6C but wanted to leave it until a few weeks after the product was released. He also said that ".... when Intel Visual Fortran is released, we will send a notice to all registered CVF users (who asked to be notified of updates)".

Well I have certainly never had any communication from either organisation re the CVF-IVF upgrade offer, yet I arrive here only to discover that the special pricing has expired more than a month ago.

Not being a full time programmer, I cannot justify constantly coming back to check when the release would be while working on projects totally unrelated to programming, especially since this has been a multi-year saga and Iwas registered to be notified of any new releases.

Till mid-last year I was still receiving messages of the type "Dear valued Compaq Visual Fortran customer, ... You are receiving this message because you are a registered user of Compaq Visual Fortran and asked to receive our newsletter or notices of new releases. This message is being sent by Hewlett-Packard (Compaq) on behalf of Intel." (Alas, none of the messages received related in any way to Fortran).

What are my remaining options & what is the point of bothering to register?

David

Steven_L_Intel1 · ‎05-14-2004

David, I sympathize, really I do. I tried to get the $200 offer extended but was not successful. We were not able to get permission from HP to send to the CVF registered user list and so did the best we could to promote the product in other ways.It had been our intention to send mail to all the registered users who asked for such notices.

I do take issue with your comment about the mailings, as I was the one who sent those out and they ALL dealt with Fortran.

Unfortunately, the discount offer is no longer available.

davidspurr · ‎05-15-2004

Steve

My apologies.

I just checked and you are quite correct that the "messages sent by Hewlett-Packard (Compaq) on behalf of Intel" were all Fortran related. I had confused these with later emails that came directly from"Intel Developer Services", none of which mentioned Fortran. Sorry, I should have taken more care.

Still, that puzzles me. It seems I was on theIntel list, which can only have happened when I joined this (Fortran) forum, or that my details came through from HP (sounds unlikely from what you say). So,why did I get pushed stuff on "Intel Mobile Application Architecture Guide" (18/11/2003), "Borland Technical Workshop Series, sponsored by Intel" (4/11/2003), or"Optimization Kits for Intel PXA2xx Processors with Intel XScale Technology" (15/04/2004), butnot beinformed when the CVF > IVF upgrade came? I never wanted the other stuff. As a researchengineer whose only software developmentisuse ofFortran at various times formy work,it was irrelevant & annoying. I get enough spam already.

Although not a fulltime programmer (far from it), Fortran is still very important for the situations where I use it. It is frustrating that the one bit of advice I needed (& was awaiting) never came - especially since only about a month beforehand, I understood I had assurance that ".... when Intel Visual Fortran is released, we will send a notice to all registered CVF users ..."? That was despite apparently being "an Intel Developer Services member" and "a registered user of Compaq Visual Fortran". I just wanted to know about significant developments related to Fortran.

David

Incidently, the 15/04/2004newsletter was stillreferring to"Intel C++ Compiler 7.1". No suggestion of an upgrade to v8 in that email, yet it appears C++ has also been upgraded to v8 (presumably at a similar time to the Fortran upgrade?).

Another puzzle (given the lack of"permission from HP to send to the CVF registered user list") is that at least someearlier "messages sent by Hewlett-Packard (Compaq) on behalf of Intel" were related to Intel products such as "VTune Performance Analyzer" (16/05/2003).

Steven_L_Intel1 · ‎05-15-2004

David,

You're referring to several different things. When you registered for this forum with Intel Developer Services, you indicated interest in various topics, but there is no connection there regarding your being a CVF user and IDS didn't send announcements about Intel Visual Fortran. That's something we'll look into for the future.

Thanks for the note about the IDS newsletter referring to an old compiler version. I'll look into that.

The story about HP is complicated, and I can't get into too many details here. All I can say is that things were going well until the time approached for the IVF release, when, as had been informally agreed earlier, HP would stop selling CVF and would promote IVF. Then they had a change of heart (possibly because that would mean giving up a revenue stream.) Things went downhill from there... All of us at Intel are upset by this, as we wanted to make the transition smooth and let the CVF users know about the new version.

David, if you'd send me e-mail at steve.lionel@intel.com so I have your contact information, I'd appreciate it.

pecan204 · ‎06-18-2004

I have seen mention that Vc++.net is required to link the latest version of visual fortran.

Is it certain that Vc++ 5.0 with visual studi 97 cannot work?

Thanks

Steven_L_Intel1 · ‎06-18-2004

Yes, it's certain. You may find this topic of interest, however.