For developers who built their careers on PGI Visual Fortran, this transition represented both a challenge and an opportunity:
At its core, PGVF was a hybrid product:
was a commercial Fortran compiler suite developed by The Portland Group (PGI). Unlike basic command-line compilers, PGVF was specifically designed to integrate seamlessly with Microsoft Visual Studio on the Windows platform. pgi visual fortran
: PVF provides a custom Fortran Build Engine that handles project dependencies, Fortran-specific property pages, and extensions for the Visual Studio editor. For developers who built their careers on PGI
Suppose you have a legacy PGI Visual Fortran project ( simulation.f95 ) using CUDA Fortran: Fortran-specific property pages