NVIDIA unveils CUDA Fortran Compiler

BANGALORE, INDIA: NVIDIA today announced the public beta release of the PGI CUDA-enabled Fortran compiler.

According to the release, the new compiler is developed in collaboration with The Portland Group, the first Fortran compiler compatible with the NVIDIA CUDA-enabled graphics processing units (GPUs).

A compiler is a software tool that translates applications from the high-level programming languages used by software developers into a binary form a computer can execute.

GPU computing with the CUDA C-compiler has gained significant momentum in the High-Performance Computing (HPC) space as it enables developers to get transformative increases in performance with minimal coding required said the release.

It further added, Fortran is particularly well suited to numeric computation and scientific computing and remains widely used in a wide range of applications such as weather modeling, computational fluid dynamics and seismic processing.

Interested developers can download the beta CUDA Fortran compiler for Linux, Windows and Mac OS.