The Portland Group

Last updated
PGI
Company type Subsidiary
Industry Software, programming tools
Founded1989;35 years ago (1989) in Wilsonville, Oregon, United States
FoundersVince Schuster
Larry Meadows
Bob Toelle
Glenn Denison
FateAcquired by Nvidia
Headquarters
Beaverton, Oregon
,
United States
Area served
Worldwide
Products Compilers
Debuggers
Profilers
IDEs
Parent STMicroelectronics (2000–2013)
Website pgroup.com

PGI (formerly The Portland Group, Inc.) was a company that produced a set of commercially available Fortran, C and C++ compilers for high-performance computing systems. On July 29, 2013, Nvidia acquired The Portland Group, Inc. [1] [2] As of August 5, 2020, the "PGI Compilers and Tools" technology is a part of the Nvidia HPC SDK product available as a free download from Nvidia. [3] [4]

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Company history

The Portland Group was founded as a privately held company in 1989, using compiler technology developed at and acquired from Floating Point Systems Inc. The first products, pipelining Fortran and C compilers, were released in 1991, targeting the Intel i860 processor. These compilers were used on Intel supercomputers like the iPSC/860, the Touchstone Delta, and the Paragon, and were the compilers of choice for the majority of i860-based platforms. [5]

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. PGI produced an HPF compiler, called PGHPF, until its last release, version 15.10, on October 28, 2015. [6]

In 1996, PGI developed x86 compilers for the ASCI Red Supercomputer at Sandia National Laboratories, [7] the first computer system to sustain teraflop performance. In 1997, PGI released x86 compilers for general use on Linux workstations. [8]

The Portland Group was acquired by STMicroelectronics on December 19, 2000. During STMicroelectronics ownership, PGI operated as a wholly owned subsidiary producing high-performance computing (HPC) compilers and tools for Linux, Windows, Mac OS, and STMicroelectronics ST100 series of embedded DSP cores. [9] [10]

PGI has been deeply involved in the expansion of the use of GPGPUs for high-performance computing, developing CUDA Fortran [11] [12] with Nvidia and PGI Accelerator Fortran and C compilers [13] which use programming directives. PGI and NVIDIA have both participated in the specification of the new standard OpenACC directives for GPU computing since it was first announced on November 3, 2011. [14] [15] On May 21, 2013, PGI released a compiler for the OpenCL language on multi-core ARM processors. [16]

Nvidia acquired PGI from STMicroelectronics on July 29, 2013 [1] [2] and offered the PGI technology under the "PGI Compilers and Tools" product line. [17] On August 5, 2020, Nvidia announced that the "PGI Compilers and Tools" product line has evolved into a new NVIDIA HPC SDK product available as a free download from Nvidia. The Nvidia HPC SDK includes rebranded PGI compilers and added features for developing HPC applications. [3] [4]

Product and market history

Compilers

PGI compilers incorporate global optimization, vectorization, software pipelining, and shared-memory parallelization capabilities targeting both Intel and AMD processors. PGI supports the following high-level languages:

Below is a list of the PGI compilers that have been rebranded and integrated into the Nvidia HPC SDK: [3]

Programming tools

PGI also provided a parallel debugger, PGDBG, and a performance profiler, PGPROF, both of which supported OpenMP and MPI parallelism on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS. On Windows, the PGI Fortran compiler and debugger was fully integrated into Microsoft Visual Studio as a product called PGI Visual Fortran (PVF). Mac OS support and the PVF product were discontinued after the release of PGI version 19.10 on November 6, 2019. [18]

Below is a list of PGI programming tools that have been retired and replaced by other Nvidia programming tools in the Nvidia HPC SDK: [3]

PGI milestones

See also

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