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Porting Applications from Compaq* Visual Fortran to Intel® Fortran Steve Lionel – Intel Software Products Division Compaq* Visual Fortran is one of the most widely used Fortran compiler products for 32-bit Microsoft Windows* systems, and many applications have been developed using Compaq Visual Fortran. In August 2001, the Visual Fortran product development team joined Intel and immediately began work on a “best of both worlds” product line, combining the Visual ® Fortran feature set and Fortran-specific optimizations with the Intel optimizer and code generators, to produce a family of industry-leading Fortran compilers for IA-32 and Intel® Itanium® processor-based systems running Windows* and Linux*. The Windows-based compilers will be called Intel® Visual Fortran, while the Linux-based compilers will retain the name Intel® Fortran. In the meantime, the new Intel Fortran Compiler 7.0 Compiler for Windows has a lot to offer to current Visual Fortran users. This document will help you adapt Visual Fortran applications to Intel Fortran 7.0, while preserving upwards compatibility with the future Intel Visual Fortran product. Why port to Intel Fortran now? As a current Compaq Visual Fortran user, you may be wondering, “What’s in it for me?” Here’s a partial list of features in Intel Fortran 7.0 that are not in Visual Fortran 6.6: • Quadruple-precision REAL(16) floating point data type • OpenMP* support for multiprocessor applications • Code generation that takes full advantage of SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) ® ® instructions in the latest Intel Pentium 4 processors • Optional “CPU dispatch” code generation for automatically selecting at run-time the best code for the user’s system processo