[gmx-developers] fftw 3.3.7 release

[Åke Sandgren]

Well, they do say "Experimental support for CMake." in the release notes.

On 11/02/2017 02:10 PM, Szilárd Páll wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 1:42 PM, Christoph Junghans <junghans at votca.org> wrote:
>> 2017-11-02 4:00 GMT-06:00 Szilárd Páll <pall.szilard at gmail.com>:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> The new FFTW supports cmake so I think it's a good opportunity for us
>>> to port the "own" FFTW build.
>>>
>>> http://www.fftw.org/release-notes.html
>>>
>>> They also seem to have tuned FMA usage for Intel (has anyone tried?)
>>> and made AArch64 official "now that they have hardware to test it" :)
>> Let's not switch quite yet ;-)
>> https://github.com/FFTW/fftw3/pull/103#issuecomment-331670751
> 
> That's a pretty strong limitation, I have to say. I guess they should
> have called cmake support "beta" (or tested it better :).
> 
> Any experience on the impact of the FMA tuning?
> 
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