[gmx-users] How to enable fortran inner loops in Itanium 2

David van der Spoel spoel at xray.bmc.uu.se
Wed Dec 22 09:51:36 CET 2004


On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 16:23 +0800, PeiQuan Chen wrote:
> Dear gmx-users,
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> I have read the following in the website of gromacs. Recently I want to compile the gromacs code in our Itanium 2(1.G) cluster, but I find that the efficient is less than the Petiume 4 cpu(2.8G). I think if I can enable the fortran inner loops, It may be fast than the Petiume 4 right? Can anyone tell me how to enable it?
./configure --enable-fortran

It will not be faster than P4.

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> Thank you.
> 
> The Itanium doesn't have assembly inner loops, but we used fortran inner loops (that requires some tweaking and is not enabled by default since the intel compiler linking stage is quite buggy) with version 5.0.1 of the Intel C and Fortran compiler	
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> Sincerely yours
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