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XL Fortran is the compiler of choice for the scientific and engineering communities to support extensive numerical, scientific and high-performance computing.

XL Fortran for AIX is designed to optimize your infrastructure for Power Systems. From enhancements to support the latest standards, highly-tuned math libraries to industry leading optimization technology, XL Fortran for AIX will allow you to get the most out of your hardware investment.
Designed for Power Systems: Designed to leverage hardware advancements in Power Systems, including the latest POWER7 technology.
Programming language of choice for numerical intensive calculations for High Performance Computing systems
Application Performance: Industry leaders in optimization technology that maximizes the application performance executing on Power Systems
Improve Developer Productivity: With access to highly-tuned libraries, optimization utilities and development utilities, developers can focus on solving business logic
Collaboration Tools: Integration with the latest IBM Rational Team Concert for Power collaboration tools
Application portability: Fully implements Fortran 2003, OpenMP 3.0, Fortran 95, Fortran 90, and FORTRAN 77 Standards that enables ease of application migration to Power Systems.
See What’s New with XL Fortran for AIX V13.1 including enhancements to leverage the latest POWER7 hardware.
Operating systems supported: AIX
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Fortran is the language of choice for scientists and engineers in addition to its common use as a powerful language for research.
IBM Enterprise Modernization solutions for Power Systems help you evolve core IT systems towards modern architectures and technologies.
IBM delivers innovative, powerful, open High Performance Computing (HPC) solutions to address your demands for intense computation.
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Libraries of highly-tuned mathematical intrinsic functions offer improved performance over the standard mathematical library routines
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