The Portland Group, a Visual Numerics technology partner, is offering a no-cost, limited time PGI Visual Fortran license to students and faculty living in the USA.

More information can be found at the Free PGI Visual Fortran Offer page. Note: this license will expire on August 31, 2009 at which time the compilers will stop working unless you purchase a permanent license. (Your compiled programs will not be affected.)

In addtion, Visual Numerics and The Portland Group have teamed to build special editions of the IMSL Fortran Libraries for 32/64-bit Microsoft Windows specifically for PGI compilers. There is a special offer for academic consumers of PGI Visual Fortran.