5799 - IBM FORT AE FOR BLUE GENE/P




RPQ Number:P10194

     CREATED:  2007-09-20          REVISED:  2011-06-23          
     P10194 - IBM FORT AE FOR BLUE GENE/P 
     Lab of Control:   RSW
     Plant/Field Installation: PF  (Plant or Field)
     RPQ Type:   P (Program RPQ (PRPQ))
     

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RPQ/PRPQ Machine Type and Model

     MARKET:     AP                MACHINE:    5799              
     LEAD TIME:  ZZ
     ORDERING:   Non-standard RPQ (I)  (Lab approval required)
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     MODELS:     HJF  
     
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     MODELS:     HJF  
     
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     MARKET:     USA               MACHINE:    5799              
     LEAD TIME:  ZZ
     ORDERING:   Non-standard RPQ (I)  (Lab approval required)
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     MODELS:     HJF  
     
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     SC5809  IBM FORT AE FOR BLUE GENE/P   AP 
     SC5809  IBM FORT AE FOR BLUE GENE/P   CAN
     SC5809  IBM FORT AE FOR BLUE GENE/P   EMA
     SC5809  IBM FORT AE FOR BLUE GENE/P   LA 
     SC5809  IBM FORT AE FOR BLUE GENE/P   USA
     
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Detailed Description

Product Name: IBM XL Fortran Advanced Edition for Blue Gene/P, V11.1   
              (License with 1 Year Software Maintenance included)      
                                                                       
PID NUMBER: 5799-HJF                                                   
PRPQ Number: P10194                                                    
ANNOUNCEMENT DATE:                September 25, 2007                   
AVAILABILITY DATE:                September 28, 2007                   
WITHDRAWAL FROM MARKETING DATE:   December 31, 2013                    
WITHDRAWAL FROM SUPPORT DATE:     December 31, 2014                    
TESTING PERIOD: none                                                   
                                                                       
MACHINE MODEL INFORMATION:                                             
Prices in this document are for reference purposes only. Consult your  
local price source for the latest and most accurate price for this     
PRPQ. Prices are in US dollars unless otherwise noted.                 
                                                                       
OVERVIEW:                                                              
The IBM XL Fortran Advanced Edition for Blue Gene/P, V11.1 program is  
a standards-based, highly optimized compiler. With IBM XL Fortran      
technology, you have a powerful development environment to build       
Fortran applications.                                                  
XL Fortran Advanced Edition for Blue Gene/P, V11.1 is a highly         
optimizing, native Fortran compiler designed to exploit, optimize and  
tune applications for the Blue Gene/P PowerPC 450d processor           
architecture and its Double Hummer floating-point unit (FPU).          
XL Fortran Advanced Edition for Blue Gene/P, V11.1 includes the IBM    
Mathematical Acceleration Subsystem (MASS) libraries of tuned          
mathematical intrinsic functions. These libraries of highly tuned      
mathematical functions can greatly improve the performance of          
mathematically intensive applications.                                 
What's new in this version:                                            
-Enhanced support for Fortran 2003 including implementation of the     
full Fortran 2003 object-oriented model, I/O enhancements, scoping and 
data manipulation enhancements, procedure enhancements, and intrinsic  
function enhancements.                                                 
-New features and enhancements for performance and optimization tuning 
-New or changed compiler options and directives                        
                                                                       
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION:                                                   
FORTRAN 90, FORTRAN 95 and FORTRAN 2003 Standards                      
XL Fortran Advanced Edition for Blue Gene/P, V11.1 is a compiler that  
supports ISO/IEC 1539-1:1991(e) and ANSI X3.198-1992 (referred to as   
Fortran 90 or F90), ISO/IEC 1539-1:1997 (referred to as Fortran 95 or  
F95), and the majority of the Fortran 2003 standard, excepting derived 
type parameters, but including object-oriented programming. In         
addition XL Fortran Advanced Edition for Blue Gene/P, V11.1 supports   
the OpenMP V2.5 industry specification for portable parallelized       
programming.                                                           
                                                                       
Industry-Leading Optimization Technology                               
XL Fortran Advanced Edition for Blue Gene/P, V11.1 provides            
industry-leading optimization technology. Through compiler options and 
directives, programmers are offered a number of ways to optimize their 
code. A range of optimization levels (-O2, -O3, -O4 and -O5) allows    
you to perform from comprehensive low-level optimization to more       
extensive whole-program optimization. Other compiler options for       
optimization:                                                          
                                                                       
o - qarch=450|450d and -qtune=450|450d instruct the compiler to        
    generate code for the IBM Blue Gene/P architecture specifically.   
    -qarch=450 generates code for the single floating point unit (FPU) 
    and -qarch=450d generates parallel instructions for the 450d       
Double Hummer dual FPU. -qtune=450 optimizes code for the 450 family.  
of processors.                                                         
o -qhot allows for high-order transformations that specifically        
  improve performance of loops.                                        
o -qipa invokes interprocedural analysis (IPA) and enables the         
  compiler to optimize across different files (whole-program analysis) 
  This can result in significant performance improvements.             
                                                                       
XL Fortran Advanced Edition for Blue Gene/P, V11.1 provides intrinsics 
that are specifically optimized for the PowerPC 450d's Double Hummer   
dual FPU. Dual FPU instructions operate on pairs of double-precision   
floating-point numbers, which may be used to represent the real and    
imaginary parts of a complex number, or for other non-complex          
applications. Parallel operations perform single-instruction,          
multiple-data (SIMD) computations on the primary and secondary         
elements of one or more operands to enhance the performance.           
Intrinsics especially designed to efficiently manipulate complex-type  
variables is also available.                                           
                                                                       
Basic Linear Algebra Subsystem (BLAS) Library                          
The BLAS library contains highly tuned linear algebra functions. For   
example, matrix-vector product for a general matrix or its transpose,  
and combined matrix multiplication and addition for general matrices   
and their transposes.                                                  
                                                                       
Mathematical Acceleration Subsystem (MASS) Library                     
XL Fortran Advanced Edition for Blue Gene/P, V11.1 includes IBM MASS   
which provides libraries of high performance scalar and vector         
functions to perform common mathematical computations.                 
These libraries are tuned specifically for Blue Gene/P and offer       
improved performance over the standard mahematical library routines.   
They may be called from Fortran, C, and C++ applications.              
                                                                       
Automatic SMP and OpenMP Support                                       
This compiler release supports Blue Gene/P's newly-available Symmetric 
Multi-Processing (SMP) architecture. XL Fortran Advanced Edition for   
Blue Gene/P supports automatic parallelization of a C program as well  
as explicit parallelization through a set of directives that enables   
the user to parallelize selected sections of the application program.  
The SMP                                                                
capabilities are further extended to support OpenMP. The OpenMP API is 
a portable, scalable programming model with a standard interface for   
developing user-directed shared-memory parallellization in C, C++, and 
Fortran applications. The specification is defined by the OpenMP       
organization, a group of computer hardware and software vendors,       
including IBM. You can find more information about OpenMP              
specifications                                                         
at http://www.openmp.org.  With compiler support for SMP and OpenMP,   
Fortran applications can now take advantage of more power in the       
Blue Gene/P architecture.                                              
                                                                       
Shared Library Support                                                 
Also new to XL Fortran Advanced Edition for Blue Gene/P is shared      
library support which allows for dynamic linking to libraries.         
Customer                                                               
applications can share common libraries and thereby reduce the size of 
the deployed application. Maintenance is made easier because updates   
can be made to the shared libraries without the need for application   
re-linking.                                                            
                                                                       
Runtime Environment                                                    
XL Fortran Advanced Edition for Blue Gene/P provides a runtime         
environment that is optimized specifically for the Blue Gene/P system. 
                                                                       
ORDERING INSTRUCTIONS:                                                 
Note: This is a non-standard, I-listed PRPQ and requires IBM Lab       
approval before an order can be placed.                                
                                                                       
Charge metric:                                                         
IBM XL Fortran Advanced Edition for Blue Gene/P, V11.1 is a server     
product that has a charge unit of per processor based on the number of 
processors in your IBM Blue Gene/P operating environment               
(compute nodes only).                                                  
                                                                       
For the initial license order of XL Fortran Advanced Edition for       
Blue Gene/P V11.1, you must order PRPQ (5799-HJF, P10194) and then you 
must order one of either PRPQ (5799-HKA, P10201) or                    
PRPQ (5799-HKE, P10208).                                               
                                                                       
PRPQ (5799-HJF, P10194) - Initial Base License                         
To order the initial base license for XL Fortran Advanced Edition for  
Blue Gene/P V11.1, specify the program number 5799-HJF and the         
applicable feature codes from the tables above.                        
                                                                       
You must acquire the number of processor entitlements that match the   
number of processors within your Blue Gene/P System (compute nodes     
only).                                                                 
You should order a combination of the 'per single processor' feature   
code and the 'per block of 250 processor' feature code in quantities   
to be equal to the number of compute node processors in your           
customer's Blue Gene installation.                                     
One rack within a Blue Gene/P system contains                          
4096 compute node processors. If you have a one rack Blue Gene/P       
system then you must order a total of 4096 processor entitlements.     
Because each rack in a Blue Gene/P system contains 4096 compute        
node processors 4096 processor licenses is the minimum order quantity  
for a Blue Gene/P system.                                              
To order a license for a 1 rack Blue Gene/P system select the One Time 
Charge (OTC) feature for the 'per single processor' with a quantity    
of 96; then order the OTC feature for the 'per block of 250            
processors with a quantity of 16. You should also order the feature-   
code for the media supply package so that your customer obtains a      
physical CD-ROM containing the program code.                           
                                                                       
If your customer has a Blue Gene/P system with more than 1 rack then   
the quantity of processors that you must order increases. For example  
a 4 rack Blue Gene/P system is 4096 x 4 processors. You should         
therefore order quantity 134 of the 'per single processor' feature     
code and quantity 65 of the 'per block of 250 processor' feature code. 
                                                                       
Below is an ordering example, using the U.S. feature codes, for        
licensing 1 rack Blue Gene/L system with 2048 processors.              
                                                                       
                               Quantity      Basic                     
                               Processor     One-Time Charge           
Program Name:                  Entitlements  Feature Number            
------------------------------------------                             
XL Fortran Advanced Edition                                            
for Blue Gene/L V11.1                                                  
-per single processor              96             0001                 
-per block of 250 processors       16             0002                 
                                                                       
Media Supply Feature                                                   
No Charge                           1             5809                 
                                                                       
PRPQ (5799-HKA, P10201) - SWMA 1 Year Registration and Renewal         
The initial software license includes the first year of Software       
Maintenance at no extra charge. However, in order to be eligible, you  
must first register for the software maintenance. You may register for 
only 1 year of initial Software Maintenance by placing an order for    
PRPQ (5799-HKA, P10201). Select the no-charge registration feature     
codes and order the same number of processor entitlements as in the    
base license order. There is no media supply feature code with this    
PRPQ.The media supply is only ordered through the base license PRPQ.   
Do not order the feature codes for the 1 year renewal unless you       
wish to purchase additional years of software maintenance in 1 year    
increments ... (see below).                                            
                                                                       
This PRPQ (5799-HKA, P10201) may also be used to purchase further      
extensions of Software Maintenance (software services and support)     
in one year increments by ordering the renewal feature codes within    
this PRPQ.                                                             
5799-HKE, P10208) - SWMA 3 Year Registration                           
Alternately, PRPQ (5799-HKE, P10208) allows you to register for the    
first year of no-charge software maintenance and extend this initial   
year of software maintenance to a full 3 years. The initial year of    
software maintenance is at no charge and you are only charged for the  
second and third year of maintenance. This registration PRPQ is only   
valid with the initial order. Select the registration feature codes    
and order the same number of processor entitlements as in the base     
license order. There is no media supply feature code with this PRPQ.   
The media supply is only ordered through the base license PRPQ.        
                                                                       
PRPQ (5799-HJP, P10199) - SWMA 3 Year Renewal                          
This PRPQ allows you to renew for an additional 3 years of software    
maintenance. For detailed ordering instructions refer to the text of   
this PRPQ.                                                             
                                                                       
PRPQ (5799-HJL, P10202) - SWMA 1 Year After License                    
This PRPQ allows you to reinstate your 1 year software maintenance if  
you have let your maintenance lapse. For detailed ordering             
instructions refer to the text of this PRPQ.                           
                                                                       
NATIONAL LANGUAGE SUPPORT:                                             
This program is not translated.                                        
This program is available in U.S. English only.                        
No translated messages or translated publications are available.       
                                                                       
DOCUMENTATION AND ONLINE HELP:                                         
IBM XL Fortran Advanced Edition for Blue Gene/P, V11.1 provides you    
comprehensive documentation for your reference:                        
o Readme file:  Identifies important information you need to be aware  
  of before you install and use the XL Fortran compiler.               
o Using the XL compilers for Blue Gene: Discusses specific             
considerations for developing, compiling, and optimizing Fortran and   
and C/C++ applications for the Blue Gene/P PowerPC 450 and             
Blue Gene/L PowerPC 440 processor architectures and their              
Double Hummer floating-point unit.                                     
This product includes Blue Gene-specific and IBM XL compilers for      
Linux documentation as reference information. See the -Using the XL    
Compilers for Blue Gene- document for a list of documents included.    
                                                                       
XL Fortran Advanced Edition for Blue Gene/P, V11.1 provides            
documentation in several formats:                                      
o Installable man pages for the compiler invocations and all           
  command line utilities                                               
o PDF documents                                                        
You will need to have the appropriate viewers, such as a               
frames-capable HTML browser, such as Mozilla, or a PDF viewer, such as 
gv or Xpdf.                                                            
An information center of searcheable HTML is now available on the web  
at:                                                                    
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/compbgpl/v9v111/index.jsp     
                                                                       
All unlicensed manuals are also available from the XL C/C++ web site:  
http://www.ibm.com/software/awdtools/fortran/xlfortran/library         
                                                                       
Documentation Errata are available as a Technote from the product      
README updates page at this URL:                                       
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21266461                 
                                                                       
SPECIFIED OPERATING ENVIRONMENT:                                       
Hardware requirements:                                                 
This PRPQ is specifically offered for the IBM Blue Gene/P System       
                                                                       
Software requirements for application execution:                       
o GNU Toolchain built for Blue Gene/P based on gcc 4.1.1 and glibc 2.4 
Hardware requirements for compilation on a Front End node:             
o Hard disk space:                                                     
  -Approximately 300 MB for product packages                           
  -At least 2 GB (recommended) for paging                              
  -At least 512 MB for temporary files                                 
   (High levels of optimization may require more space for paging and  
   temporary files.)                                                   
Software requirements for compilation on a Front End node:             
o SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 Service Pack 1 (SLES10 SP1) for      
  IBM POWER                                                            
o An instance of the SLES10 -- gcc 4.1.2                               
o Optional GUI: K Desktop Environment (KDE) for applications and       
  tools with an X-Windows graphical interface                          
o Viewers to access and display the documentation such as:             
  -A frames-capable browser to access HTML documentation               
  -A PDF viewer to view PDF files                                      
                                                                       
SECURITY, AUDITABILITY, AND CONTROL                                    
This program uses the security and auditability features of the host   
hardware or software.The customer is responsible for evaluation,       
selection, and implementation of the security features, administrative 
procedures, and appropriate controls in application systems and        
communication facilities.                                              
                                                                       
NOTES:                                                                 
Effective December 31, 2013, IBM will withdraw this product from       
marketing.                                                             
                                                                       
Effective December 31, 2014, IBM will withdraw support for this        
product licensed under the International Program License Agreement.    

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Prerequisites:

 I-Listed PRPQ:                                                        
                                                                       
 This is an -I- listed product, indicating that approval must be       
 obtained prior to ordering. Once a request is approved, an actual     
 order for the product can then be placed via the ordering system      
 particular to that location (eg. ... AAS or WTAAS).                   
                                                                       
 Requesting RPQ Approval:                                              
 -Submitting an RPQ Request and getting the RPQ Approval Number.       
 (Please follow the correct process for your geography) ...            
                                                                       
 Canada:                                                               
 - Obtain and send completed form to task ID -Canada                   
 RPQ/Austria/IBM@IBMSK-                                                
 - RPQ coordinator will assign the -PRPQ Approval Number- and submit   
 the request through the RPQS system for approval.                     
 - Assistance available from Canada RPQ/Austria/IBM@IBMSK              
                                                                       
 Latin America:                                                        
 - Start the approval process by contacting the Latin America Techline 
 organization which provides RPQ submittal support for Latin America.  
 TECHLINE@US.IBM.COM                                                   
 - Please note that Authorized Business Partners can send requests to  
 Techline via PartnerWorld agents, here is a list of the Partner World 
 id's;  pwcsbo@ar.ibm.com; pwcscl@ar.ibm.com; pwcsco@ar.ibm.com;       
 pwcsec@ar.ibm.com; pwcspy@ar.ibm.com; pwcspe@ar.ibm.com;              
 pwcsar@ar.ibm.com; pwcsve@ar.ibm.com; pwcsmx@ar.ibm.com;              
 pwcsbr@br.ibm.com                                                     
 - Techline RPQ coordinator will assign the -PRPQ Approval Number- and 
 submit the request through the RPQS system for approval               
 - Assistance available from Henry Matos/Atlanta/IBM@IBMUS             
                                                                       
 Americas:                                                             
 - To begin process in the US access the RPQS database by following    
 these instructions:                                                   
 - File -> Database -> Open and enter D03DBL02 as the server name;     
 r_dir as the directory and RPQ Requests as the Database               
 - name/rpqreq.nsf as the file name.                                   
 - Select the Create Request icon and submit the requested information.
 - RPQ coordinator will assign the -PRPQ Approval Number- and submit   
 the request through the RPQS system for approval.                     
 - Assistance available from Debbie L Verbryck/Dallas/IBM@IBMUS        
                                                                       
 Europe:                                                               
 - EMEA forms must be submitted from the country in which the bid is   
 being made, by a user with a local Lotus Notes ID.                    
 - Start the approval process through new Lotus Notes db:              
 D03DBL02/03/A/IBM r_dir\rpqereq.nsf.                                  
 - Create an RPQ Request Form and submit it, this will be received by  
 Europe RPQ Coordinator                                                
 - RPQ coordinator will assign the -PRPQ Approval Number- and submit   
 the request through the RPQS system for approval                      
 - Assistance available from Christa Waldenmaier/Germany/IBM@IBMDE     
                                                                       
 Asia Pacific:                                                         
 - Start the approval process by filling out either the AP request form
 for customers outside Australia and New Zealand, OR, for those in     
 Australia and New Zealand, the form found here: CSO Admin Tool  ...   
 - (Please send completed forms to Task ID -Austria AP RPQ             
 Request/Austria/IBM-)                                                 
 - RPQ coordinator will assign the -PRPQ Approval Number- and submit   
 the request through the RPQS system for approval                      
 - Assistance available from Austria AP RPQ Request/Austria/IBM.       
                                                                       
 TERMS AND CONDITIONS:                                                 
 LICENSING:                                                            
 Licensed under the IBM International Program License Agreement (IPLA),
 Z125-3301 with license information unique to the offering as contained
 in the License Information Document                                   
                                                                       
 License Information form number: L-JYIP-75FNNJ                        
                                                                       
 LIMITED WARRANTY APPLIES: Yes                                         
                                                                       
 Program technical support:                                            
 Technical support of a program product may be available for a minimum 
 of three years from the initial availability date, as long as your    
 Software Maintenance is in effect. This technical support allows you  
 to obtain assistance (via telephone or electronic means) from IBM for 
 product-specific, task-oriented questions regarding the installation  
 and operation of the program.                                         
 Money-back guarantee:                                                 
 If for any reason you are dissatisfied with the Program and you are   
 the original licensee, return it within 30 days from the invoice date,
 to the party (either IBM or its reseller) from whom you acquired it,  
 for a refund. For clarification, note that this term applies only to  
 your first acquisition of the Program.                                
                                                                       
 Educational allowance available: No                                   
                                                                       
 Volume Orders (IVO): No                                               
                                                                       
 LIMITATIONS:                                                          
 IBM XL Fortran Advanced Edition for Blue Gene/P, V11.1 is a server    
 product that has a charge unit of per processor based on the number of
 processors in your IBM Blue Gene/P operating environment              
 (compute nodes only).                                                 
                                                                       
 This program is warranted for the IBM Blue Gene/P operating           
 environment only.                                                     
 XL Fortran Advanced Edition for Blue Gene/P may be used in conjunction
 with SLES10 -for testing and debugging of applications-. Customers who
 wish to create and run applications targeted to Linux distributions,  
 such as SLES10 and RHEL 5, should license the one of the XL compilers 
 for Linux.                                                            
                                                                       
 NOTICE:                                                               
 This document may provide references to non-IBM Web sites and         
 resources. IBM makes no representations, warranties, or other         
 commitments whatsoever about any non-IBM Web sites or third-party     
 resources that may be referenced in this document. A reference to a   
 non-IBM Web site does not mean that IBM endorses the content or       
 use of such Web site or its owner.                                    
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 Accordingly, you acknowledge and agree that IBM is not responsible for
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 responsible or liable for any content, services, products, or other   
 materials on or available from those sites or resources.              
 Any software provided by third parties is subject to the terms and    
 conditions of the license that accompanies that software.             
                                                                       
 COPYRIGHT:                                                            
 Copyright IBM Corporation 2007. All rights reserved. U.S. Government  
 user restricted rights.                                               
                                                                       
 TRADEMARKS:                                                           
 IBM, POWER, PowerPC, Blue Gene, Blue Gene/L, and Blue Gene/P are      
 registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation  
 in the United States, other countries, or both.                       
                                                                       
 Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the United       
 States other countries, or both.                                      
 Other company, product, and service names may be trademarks or service
 marks of others.                                                      

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Product Control Information

 
 PLANT OR FIELD INSTALLATION
 Revision Number            : 3   Development/Market            : M
 Location of Control        : RSW Purchase only                 : N  
 Return to IBM              : N   Net Price device              : N
 Customer Parts Required    : N   Cable Specification Required  : N  
 Customer Setup Required    : N   Reconfiguration Required      : N  
 Quick parts/wire add/remove: N   Warranty Options Available    : N  
 Current Disposition Code   : 10  Government or Commercial Price: 0  
 Feature Code/Model Change  :     Standard Feature Required     : N  

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Offering Identifier:

P10194

Alternate Offering Identifier:

5799 5799-HJF

Offering Type:

Software

Announce Date:

2007-09-20

Availability Date:

2007-09-20
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