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4 unusual facts about The Portland Group


The Portland Group

PGI has more recently participated in the specification of the new standard OpenACC directives for GPU computing, and has released a compiler for the OpenCL language on multi-core ARM processors.

In the early 1990s PGI was deeply involved in the development of High Performance Fortran, or HPF, a data parallel language extension to Fortran 90 which provides a portable programming interface for a wide variety of architectures.

or PGI is a company that produces a set of commercially available Fortran, C and C++ compilers for high-performance computing systems.

The first products, pipelining Fortran and C compilers, were released in 1991, targeting the Intel i860 processor.



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