
Use of such instructions through the compiler can lead to improved application performance in some applications as run on IA-32 and Intel 64 architectures, compared to applications built with compilers that do not support these instructions. The latest release of the compiler continues to support the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor and Intel Architecture instruction-set capabilities by means of automatic vectorization, which can enable applications to use SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4 and AVXSIMD instructions.

On OS X and Linux, it is known as Intel Fortran. On Windows, it is known as Intel Visual Fortran. A specific release of the compiler (11.1) remains available for development of Linux-based applications for IA-64 (Itanium 2) processors. The compilers generate code for IA-32 and Intel 64 processors and certain non-Intel but compatible processors, such as certain AMD processors. Intel Fortran Compiler, also known as IFORT, is a group of Fortrancompilers from Intel for Windows, OS X, and Linux.

Numerical results were identical between.

“Intel Fortran Compiler outperforms GNU Fortran (GFortran) by more than 40 percent when testing various scenarios on the complex Stokes Inversion based on Response functions (SIR) numerical code on Ubuntu Linux.
