New PGI 18.4 Community Edition is Available
May. 3, 2018

PGI compilers and tools are used by scientists and engineers who develop applications for high-performance computing (HPC) systems. PGI compilers deliver world-class multicore CPU performance, an easy on-ramp to GPU computing with OpenACC directives, and performance portability across all major HPC platforms. 

  • New features in PGI 18.4 include:
  • Support for Intel Skylake, IBM POWER9, and AMD Zen
  • AVX-512 code generation on compatible Intel processors
  • Full OpenACC 2.6 directives-based parallel programming on both NVIDIA(R) Tesla(R)  GPUs and multicore CPUs
  • OpenMP 4.5 for x86-64 and OpenPOWER multicore CPUs
  • Integrated NVIDIA CUDA(R) 9.1 toolkit and libraries for Tesla GPUs, including V100 with NVIDIA Volta
  • Partial C++17 support and GCC 7.2 interoperability
  • New PGI fastmath intrinsics library, including AVX-512 support