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Lahey Computer Systems, Inc. Releases

LF Fortran v7.1 for .NET

March 15, 2004 - Incline Village, Nevada, USA

Lahey Computer Systems, Inc. today announced the release of Lahey/Fujitsu LF Fortran v7.1 for Windows. This full-featured Fortran 95/90/77 language system includes enhancements for performance and ease of use.

The LF Fortran v7.1 language system is available in four configurations:

  • Enterprise (Fortran for .NET / Fortran 95 / Visual Studio)
  • Professional (Fortran 95 / Visual Studio)
  • Express (Fortran 95)
  • Academic (Fortran for .NET)

New Win32 Features of LF Fortran v7.1:

  • Pentium(R) 4 and Xeon(TM) optimizations
  • SSE2 (Streaming SIMD Extensions 2) instructions
  • New WiSK Project Template (Enterprise and Professional only)
  • BLAS version for Pentium 4 (Enterprise and Professional only)
  • LAPACK version for Pentium 4 (Enterprise and Professional only)
  • Optimized SSL2 math library (Enterprise and Professional only)
  • Enhanced Automake (Enterprise and Professional only)

According to Bill Lassaline, president of Lahey, "We tested v7.1 Win32 optimizations on a 2.4GHz P4 with 512 MB of PC2100 RAM, running Windows XP, using Polyhedron’s (www.polyhedron.com) Fortran benchmarks. Specifying the new switches -tp4, -sse2, -zfm, -o2, and -inline the 90 benchmarks ran an average of 15.4% faster and the 77 benchmarks 4.4% faster than they did when built with LF Fortran v7.0."

 

About Lahey Computer Systems, Inc.
Now in its 37th year, Lahey Computer Systems, Inc. develops, markets, sells, and supports high-quality Fortran-language programming tools.

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For more information on LF Fortran v7.1, please visit the following links:
LF v7.1 General | .NET Fortran language system | Fortran 95 (Win32) language system
.NET whitepaper | Trial download | Testimonials | On-line help