VS FORTRAN

Features and benefits

VS FORTRAN is a full-function product that includes support for the ES/3090 Vector Facility and expanded support for the ES/9000 Vector Facility. In addition, it performs vector and parallel processing plus standard sequential (serial) processing all within a single program.

VS FORTRAN provides three products in one: a compiler, library, and interactive debugging facilities. They offer extensive usability, productivity, and performance enhancements, including:

• Highly optimized scalar processing for high serial program performance
• Vector processing for superior vector performance on the ES/3090 Vector Facility
• Expanded processing for enhanced vector performance on the ES/9000 Vector Facility
• Automatic parallelism and explicit parallel language support for reduced turnaround time for applications on IBM multiprocessing hardware
• I/O data striping for faster execution of sequential I/O on IBM OS/390®
• Greater flexibility in creating and managing parallel programs
• Ability for OS/390 users to specify the number of I/O buffers to be used on a unit-by-unit basis
• 225 buffers allowed and maintained by the library I/O routines and buffer residency above the 16 MB area when operating on OS/390 using DFSMS 1.1 or greater
• Data-in-virtual support for OS/390
• Extended common blocks exploiting the ESA/390 data spaces facility for larger program storage for MVS/ESA and VM/ESA
• Compliance with the FORTRAN 77 language standard
• Expanded compatibility with the RISC System/6000 XL Fortran language for improved cross-platform and host-workstation cooperation
• Inclusion of industry-standard extensions to Fortran to provide multi-vendor compatibility
• Support for extended-precision (64-bit) integers
• Ability to package program modules independently and load these modules dynamically as needed to reduce program module complexity and simplify program maintenance

 

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