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Perl is a stable, cross platform programming language. Perl is extensible. There are over 500 third party modules available from the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN).
For perl debug tools and examples see this link.
Portland Compilers
Portland Group compilers are available for use on the cluster. Fortran, C and C++ compilers and development tools enable use of networked compute nodes of Intel x64 processor-based workstations and servers to tackle serious scientific computing applications. PGI compilers offer world-class performance and features including auto-parallelization for multi-core, OpenMP directive-based parallelization, and support for the PGI Unified Binary™ technology.
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