Still using an old version of Intel® Fortran Compiler or Intel® MKL?
You're probably leaving performance on the table.
You have an opportunity to increase your applications performance by taking advantage of the dramatic evolution of processors with increasing core counts and wider vector widths. Older versions of Intel Fortran and Intel MKL pre-date most of this. Only the new versions of Intel's compilers and libraries provide built-in support for these performance innovations.
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By comparing the Polyhedron* benchmark of Intel® Visual Fortran 14.0 and Intel Visual Fortran 12.0 on the same hardware, you can see the dramatic performance gain by just recompiling the code.
And the Intel Fortran compiler provides performance leadership when compared with alternative compilers.
For math problems, achieve up to 4x higher performance on newest Intel® Core™ processors (codenamed Haswell) showed through the LINPACK Benchmark.
Both the latest compiler and Intel MKL are available in Intel® Visual Fortran Composer XE 2013 Service Pack 1 or add analysis tools with Intel® Parallel Studio XE family of products to maximize performance on today and tomorrow's hardware. Intel software development tools preserve your investments in existing development environments and code bases while providing capabilities that maximize application performance. On Windows*, they are compatible with Microsoft Visual Studio* 2008-2013 and Microsoft Windows* XP 8.1.
The latest compiler also contains features such as the following. Additional details can be found in the reference guide.
- Vectorization for more performance
- Access to Intel® AVX and Intel® AVX2 instructions (-xa or /Qxa)
- Loop optimization directives: VECTOR, PARALLEL, SIMD
- More control over array data alignment (align arrayNbytes)
- Auto-parallelizer & directives to access SIMD instructions
- Coarrays & synchronization constructs support parallel programming
- New C++ and Fortran directives enable vectorization and offloading of execution on devices such as coprocessors or accelerators.
- Additional support for Fortran90, F2003 and Fortran 2008, including co-arrays.
- Intel® tools support Intel® Xeon Phi™ product family on Windows-hosted machines
Intel® MKL has made many improvements in the last few releases. Latest benchmarks for all Intel® MKL domains can be found hereand additional details can be found in the reference manual.
- New Conditional Numerical Reproducibility feature ensures identical run to run floating point results across different processors
- New Data Fitting functions covering one-dimensional algorithms for vector spline construction, cell or bin search, and evaluation, differentiation, and integration of the spline interpolants. These functions are ideal for high performance data fitting applications.
- New BLAS & PARDISO linear algebra, FFT, vector math, and vector statistics functionality to solve a wide range of mathematical problems with high performance on Intel® and compatible processors.
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Configuration info:
Intel MKL Benchmark Configuration Info - Versions: Intel® Math Kernel Library (Intel® MKL) 10.1, 10.3, 11.0, and 11.1.1. Intel® Fortran Compiler 11.0, 12.0, 13.0, and 14.0; Hardware: Intel® Core™ Processor i5-4670T, 1 Quad-Core CPU (6 MB LLC, 2.3 Ghz), 8 GB of RAM; Operating System: RHEL 6 GA x86_64 ; Benchmark: Intel® optimized SMP LINPACK.
Comparison between Intel compiler configuration info: Software: Intel® Fortran Compiler 12.0 and 14.0; Hardware: Core i7-4770K, 4 cores/8 threads, TurboBoost on auto, Hyper Threading is on, 16GB RAM (2 channels). Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 SP1.
Comparison between Intel and alternative Fortran compiler benchmark configuration Info - Compiler Versions: Intel® Fortran 14.0, PGI 13.6;, Absoft 13.0.3, Hardware: Blue Hills ATX Media IVB Desktop DZ77BH-55K-IDD; Intel® Core™ i7-3770K CPU @ 3.50GHz, TurboBoost is on, HyperThreading is off, 16GB RAM; Windows Operating System: Windows 7 Enterprise, SP1; Polyhedron benchmark (www.polyhedron.com) performed by Intel Corp on August 20, 2013.
Software and workloads used in performance tests may have been optimized for performance only on Intel microprocessors. Performance tests, such as SYSmark and MobileMark, are measured using specific computer systems, components, software, operations and functions. Any change to any of those factors may cause the results to vary. You should consult other information and performance tests to assist you in fully evaluating your contemplated purchases, including the performance of that product when combined with other products. * Other brands and names are the property of their respective owners. Benchmark Source: Intel Corporation.