Introducing Intel Fortran Studio XE 2011 - and Intel Fortran Compiler 12.1

[Steven_L_Intel1]

The following new or revised products were introduced today:

• Intel Visual Fortran Composer XE 2011 Update 6, including Intel Visual Fortran Compiler 12.1 and some new shiny toys for users of Visual Studio 2010
• Intel Fortran Studio XE 2011 (click link for more on this)
• Intel Visual Fortran Composer XE 2011 for Windows with IMSL 6.0

Please read the compiler release notes.

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Update 7 is now available.

[dboggs]

Thanks for this heads-up and the link to the compiler release notes. I love it when a new release spells out the changes in detail instead of just saying 'this release offers improved functionality to increase productivity' or some such nonsense.

My Q: the compiler v. 12.1 appears to offer nothing of interest to me that my present v12.0 doesn't have. But the editor is another story: My IVF12.0 came packaged with VS2008, whileIVF12.1 apparently comes with VS2010, and the new editor features are very interesting to me. What would I have to do to get these?

[Steven_L_Intel1]

The editor enhancements are for VS2010 only - whether you use the VS2010 Shell in 12.1 or one you buy separately. They are implemented with a new interface to VS that is not supported by VS2008. I do recommend 12.1 because it has a lot of bug fixes and improves performance, even if there aren't a lot of new language features.

[lklawrie]

I looked at the release notes but I didn't see any details about "Update 7" only "Update 6". Are the correct release notes posted?

Linda

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Looks correct to me. I have attached the release notes here.

[Christ_F_]

Steve,

Still grinding away on trying to get this handled, or at least not get any worse. I've attached a desktop capture of IVF 11.5 in debug mode with AV working. This is in 64bit Win 7 pro.

Does version 7 at least restore the icon for AV?
This will not go away.

cf

[briarose]

We decided to wait until CD/DVD versions of the software were available, which I've been informed is now available. Before we put through our order with the retailer, I wanted to know if the Intel Visual Fortran Composer XE with IMSL will be available at any point with apaper manual or if all manuals are now only available in electronic format. My advisor prefers paper manuals, but it's been so long since we purchased Fortran (we're running 95) we aren't sure if that's an option anymore.
Thanks

[dboggs]

It would be really great to know the nature of the "bug" fixes. Viz: I have a lot of trouble with compiler "error" messages that in fact turn out to be white elephants. Most common for me are complaints about argument passing between subroutines, for example, claims that "the number of real and dummy arguments do not match" when in fact they do; claims that "the type of a real argument does not match its corresponding dummy argument" when in fact it does; claims that "an optional argument must be present for a subroutine call using an explicit interface" (or something like that) when in fact there is not an optional argument nor an explicit interface; etc. Sometimes these messages change with only slight and apparently irrelevant changes in the code, such as simply changing the name of the subroutine. It would be really nice to know if this is a problem with my own coding habits or with compiler bugs.

I didn't have this kind of trouble with CVF.

Any suggestions/admissions?

And just in case, I am presently using an academic version of 12.0. Can this be ugraded to 12.1--either academic or commercial--without paying the whole regular fee?

[Wendy_Doerner__Intel]

Hi.

Let me try to address some of the concerns raised here. Steve is a little snowed in at the moment.

cftac - No, there is no icon in the IDE to call Array Visualizer in Update 7. Array Visualizer is no longer part of the product.

briarose - The Intel Visual Fortran Compiler does not come with paper documentation. We do have installed electronic documentation into your start menu or an online version posted. The documentation is structured in a search/online method now and printing it out would not be very readable.

dboggs- We would like to hear about any warning messages you feel are false. We would consider these to be bugs. I wonder if the /warn:interfaces switch is generating interfaces for you and then the warnings are related to it. You could try turning it off to see if that resolves the issues for you (/nowarn). We would still like to hear the details though in case the compiler is generating incorrect interfaces.

Acacdemic licenses can be renewed:
Renewal: http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/extend-license/

Here is the upgrade pricing:
http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-xe-product-comparison/#upgrade

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[Yongjia_S_]

thanks for information.