Release Information
A summary of new features in each version of the PGI 2012 release.
Approximately each month PGI releases a version update. These updates include both new features and bug fixes. The new features added with each version are listed below. Bug fixes are listed on the PGI Release 2012 Technical Problem Reports summary page.
Complete details on the new features listed here are included in the PGI Release Notes and the PGI Visual Fortran® Release Notes.
PGI 2012 version 12.4
- PGI Accelerator — second beta release includes expanded support for the OpenACC 1.0 specification. OpenACC directives now supported in PGI Accelerator compilers on 64-bit Windows.
- PGDBG® Debugger — adds support for AVX instruction on Windows.
- Plus 21 user-requested enhancements and fixes.
PGI 2012 version 12.3
- PGI OpenACC C99 & Fortran—first beta release includes partial support for the OpenACC 1.0 specification.
- Plus 11 user-requested enhancements and fixes.
PGI 2012 version 12.2
- 14 user-requested enhancements and fixes.
PGI 2012 version 12.1
- 11 user-requested enhancements and fixes.
PGI 2012
- GNU-compatible C++ with all PGI features and optimizations
- Full CUDA C/C++ compiler for targeting multi-core x64
- Multi-core x64 Optimizations including AVX SIMD vectorization for Intel and AMD CPUs and IPA optimizations for improved auto-parallelization
- Full support for the PGI Accelerator™ programming model specification v1.3 including asynchronous data transfers and kernel launch
- Remote cluster debugging using PGDBG® GUI on a local client
- Eclipse integration of the PGI C/C++ compilers on Linux
- PGI Unified Binary™ supported across Intel and AMD CPUs and NVIDIA GPUs
- CUDA Fortran adds the ability to specify a stream ID in CUF kernels
- Fortran 2003 recursive I/O support