[gmx-developers] warning Emulating FMA instructions - this is probably not what you want!

[Szilárd Páll]

Hi,

First of all, as far as I know, the new icc 13 can not generate
AMD-compatible FMA4/XOP (v12 surely cant:
http://developer.amd.com/Assets/CompilerOptQuickRef-62004200.pdf), so I
find it strange that you've ended up with GMX_ACCELERATION=AVX_128_FMA
using an Intel compiler -- unless you set the acceleration manually. To get
FMA4 support you need to use a recent gcc version, the newer the better.
The Verlet kernels don't benefit much from FMA4, so if you want to, you can
use Intel Compiler, but then you need to set the acceleration to SSE2 (max
SSE3 works, but we don't use these instructions).

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Jochen Hub <jhub at gwdg.de> wrote:

> Hi developers,
>
> does anyone know how to interpret this icc warning:
>
> [  8%] /home/jhub/src/gromacs/**include/gmx_x86_avx_128_fma.h(**88):
> warning #1224: #warning directive: Emulating FMA instructions - this is
> probably not what you want!
>
>   #warning Emulating FMA instructions - this is probably not what you want!
>

This warning is related to a bug in the build system, you'll need to add
the -mfma4 flag to the compiler flags manually.

--
Szilard


> I am compiling 46-release on a Interlagos 6378 with OpenMPI and icc 13.0.0
> 20120731. My cmake line is:
>
> cmake $gmxsrc \
>     -DFFTW_LIBRARY=$FFTW_LOCATION/**lib/libfftw3f.a \
>     -DFFTW3F_INCLUDE_DIR=$FFTW_**LOCATION/include \
>     -DFFTW3F_LIBRARIES=$FFTW_**LOCATION/lib/libfftw3f.a \
>     -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$(pwd) \
>     -DGMX_X11=OFF \
>     -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=$MPICXX \
>     -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=$MPICC \
>     -DGMX_MPI=ON \
>     -DGMX_PREFER_STATIC_LIBS=ON \
>     -DGMX_GPU=OFF
>
> and cmake reported:
>
> -- Performing Test GNU_AVX_CFLAG
> -- Performing Test GNU_AVX_CFLAG - Success
> -- Enabling 128-bit AVX Gromacs acceleration (with fused-multiply add),
> and it will help compiler optimization.
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Jochen
>
>
>
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