The ANU has acquired two multiuser licences for Fujitsu's SPARC Fortran90 compiler and associated tools. The Fujitsu compiler is widely regarded as the best Fortran90 compiler for SUNs at present being extremely robust and consistently producing faster executables than SUN's f77. This software is available (free) to anyone on campus but is particularly aimed at High Parformance Computing users who are likely to use the ANU's new Fujitsu VPP300 supercomputer. The compiler and tools are very similar to those on the VPP300 making remote development and porting trivial.

The compiler, library and tools binaries can be installed on any SUN machines (SunOS 4.1.x or Solaris 2.x) on campus (requires system administrator privileges). Licence tokens are obtained transparently from a licence server when the compiler or tools are invoked. The two licence servers (one in ANUSF and one in SMS) each have 10 simultaneous use licences for each tool. If all tokens are being used, your request is queued.

The software includes:

frt - Fujitsu's Fortran90 compiler and associated dynamic libraries

workbench - a GUI to online documentation (xhelp), a debugger (fdb and xfdb) and a profiling tool (samp and xsamp); tools may be invoked without workbench

xanalyzer - "Visual Analyzer": static source analyser (call trees, argument and global data checks, cross-referencing, standards conformance, etc); useful for analyzing large existing codes.

kbox - "Knowledge Book": online Fortran90 books

If you are interested in using this software, contact your local system administrator to ascertain whether you have a local SUN to support your use. To install everything, at least 50MBs of permanent storage is required and twice that during installation - a subset may be installed. Get your sys admin to contact David.Singleton@anu.edu.au. for details of how to obtain the software and license information.