Introducing Intel Visual Fortran Composer XE 2011

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Intel Visual Fortran Composer XE 2011 is the new release of the product formerly known as Intel Visual Fortran Professional Edition. It is available now from the Intel Software Development Products Registration Center and includes version 12.0 of the Intel Visual Fortran compiler and version 10.3 of Intel Math Kernel Library.

New compiler features include:

• More Fortran 2003 support, including generic type-bound procedures and FINAL procedure
• More Fortran 2008 support, including coarrays, DO CONCURRENT, unlimited format repeat count, and an increase of the maximum array dimensions to 31 (standard says 15)
• Listing files with cross-reference
• Guided auto-parallelism
• Support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

Read the release notes for more details.

If you have a current license for Intel Visual Fortran Professional Edition you can download and install Intel Visual Fortran Composer XE 2011 at no additional charge.

A special note to IMSL users - we have not yet completed qualification of the IMSL library with the new compiler version and are not yet releasing an installer including IMSL. You can download and install the new compiler and keep version 11.1 installed - we recommend that you continue to use the version 11.1 compiler with the IMSL that was provided with it. At this time we can't estimate when the qualification of IMSL will be completed.

[Steven_L_Intel1]

In my opinion, VS2010 has no advantages for the Fortran user over VS2008. If you need VS2010 for other things, then fine, but I don't advise upgrading for Fortran-only users. I find VS2010 somewhat slower than VS2008, but otherwise its use is about the same. (This is NOT true if you are a C++ user, in which case there are significant differences.

[Andrew_Smith]

When you release Visual Fortran XE 2011 with IMSL V7 will you also be re-selling the IMSL V7 runtime licences and will runtime licensing be enforced by some system? I enquired about the price of runtime licenses from VNI and it was so expensive

[Steven_L_Intel1]

I don't expect any further change in how we sell IMSL when we get to IMSL 7. (Initially, we'll be offering IMSL 6 - IMSL 7 will follow sometime later.)

[Ludwig_Obereisenbuch]

We have a valid network license (via a license manager) for 11.1 Fortran Prof. Compiler (Windows) and tried to install the new Fortran Composer XE 2011 (30 days trial evaluation).
Unfortunatelythe license file is not accepted with the message "The license file provided is invalid".

What can we do ?

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Did you select the install option for using a license server? It won't want to use the license file itself in this case.

[Rob1]

Sorry if this is posted in the wrong place but...

We just bought XE 2011 and I attempt to compile code that had compiled fine in 11.1 and 10.0 and i get this message:

1>Please contact the application's support team for more information.
1>GEM_LO_GET_LOCATOR_INFO: zero locator value
catastrophic error: **Internal compiler error: abort signal raised** Please report this error along with the circumstances in which it occurred in a Software Problem Report. Note: File and line given may not be explicit cause of this error.

How do I file a "Software Problem Report"?

Then i attempt to contact intel premier support and i get: We were unable to authenticate your access to the Intel Premier Support web site. Please check that your login ID and password were entered correctly and that the URL used was "https://premier.intel.com". I assume this is because my email address/login ID/password are not recognized as belonging to a customer. How do I fix this?

thanks!

[Steven_L_Intel1]

themexican:

You can go to https://registrationcenter.intel.com/ and register your serial number, checking the box to say that you want support. Then you will be able to use Intel Premier Support. Or, if this is acceptable to you, you can start a new thread in this forum, attach the problem source (and any other files it needs) and show the compile command you used.

[Ludwig_Obereisenbuch]

Hi Steve,

thank you for the reply.

During installation, I seleceted --> choose alternative activation --> use a license manager --> enter host name and port. This was the same procedure during the previous installation of the Intel Visual Fortran Compiler Professional 11.1 and this worked.

Thank you in advance.

Ludwig

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Ludwig,

Please ask for assistance in the Download, Registration and Licensing section of the forum. The folks there will be able to help you.