THE COMPUTER
TRANSITION SYSTEMS
UPDATE - MARCH
2001
COMPUTER TRANSITION SYSTEMS, BOX 4553, MELBOURNE, VICTORIA, 3001
http://www.cts.com.au
--- phone (03) 9530 6633 --- fax (03) 9530 6644 --- email: info@cts.com.au
LF95 Version 6
for LINUX
TECPLOT version 9
FORTRANPLUS
VISUAL FORTRAN USERS
CPU CHIP UPDATE
All prices are based on A$=US$0.53 and will vary with the exchange rate
Version 6 of LF95 for Linux was released in February. In addition to the Express edition there is now also a Pro Edition. It is primarily oriented to those who wish to do parallel processing. Details on the two LF95 Linux compilers are given in the accompanying Lahey newsletter. LF95 Express for Linux is $517; the upgrade from version 5.5 is $308. LF95 Pro for Linux is $1474 (educational $1089).
Version 9 of Tecplot, the excellent and highly cost effective data visualization software produced by Amtec, will be released for Windows on April 2. Versions for other operating systems will follow. Tecplot users and people who would like to have a more effective way to analyze complex data or to just produce good technical diagrams should visit the Tecplot website .
www.amtec.com to obtain a clear idea of Tecplot's capabilities. Those on maintenance will automatically receive version 9 at no charge. Those who had maintenance which expired on or after 30 March 2000 are advised to renew it since this is the most inexpensive way to obtain version 9. Those who are contemplating purchase of Tecplot for Windows or Linux should do so before version 9 is released since these prices will increase significantly. Those that buy Tecplot now will receive Version 9 at no charge since a year of maintenance is provided with all new Tecplot purchases. Version 9 contains many useful enhancements . details are given athttp://www.amtec.com/contours/issue5/V9preview.html
Amtec produces "Contours", a very useful newsletter for Tecplot users. If you have not been receiving this and would like to please advise Computer Transition Systems and provide your email address. If you have an example Tecplot application which you would like to share with others please let us or Amtec know.
Version 2.2 of the FortranPlus compiler produced by NA Software has now been released. A new, even more economical, student edition is now available - $121 for Windows or Linux. The 'Explorer' edition is no longer available but anyone, not just students, may purchase the student edition. The 'Standard' edition which includes a printed users guide and precompiled BLAS and LAPACK libraries is $440 (academic $363). The 'professional' package ($737, academic $594) additionally includes extensive mathematics libraries and implementations of the standard HPF Library and intrinsic procedures.
Visual Fortran 6.5A updates the Compaq Fortran 90/95 compiler, run-time library, certain IDE components, the Array Visualizer, and the Visual Fortran documentation. The update corrects significant problems in version 6.5 so it is strongly recommended. It may be downloaded from.
http://www.compaq.com/fortran/visual/update-65A.html. From time to time Compaq issues a useful news-letter (December 2000 is the most recent issue). It is emailed to all owners who register with themThe SPEC floating point benchmark is based on the execution speed of Fortran programs. Many find the SPEC results accurately reflect the performance of their Fortran programs on various hardware. While the Pentium 4 CPU has not been very well received by the media the SPEC results indicate that it has excellent floating point performance. Some SPEC2000FP results are Pentium 4 (1.4 GHz) 530, Athlon (1.2 GHz) 359, PIII (1GHz) 304, Alpha 21264B (833 MHz) 590, UltraSparc III (900MHz) 482, SGI R12000 (400MHz) 407, HP-PA8600 (55OMHz) 389, IBM Power 3-II (450 MHz) 356, and IBM PowerPC RS64-III (500MHz) 243. In Melbourne the price of a complete P4 1.4 Ghz PC with 128K of memory is less than $2800.
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Updated 18 March 2001