[gmx-users] Re: latest benchmarks (Itanium/Xeon/Opteron)

[David van der Spoel]

On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 14:46, Michel Cuendet wrote:

>   The --disable-software-sqrt option doesn't help. I noted also that 
> gromacs single precision computes wrong results (box exploding 
> systematically), whereas double precision doesn't take more time and 
> gives more reasonable output.
This shouldn't be... What system is that? Is it reproducible, i.e. the
same tpr gives different results in single and double?


> IPO: performing multi-file optimizations
> ../mdlib/.libs/libmd.a: could not read symbols: Archive has no index; 
> run ranlib to add one
>  
>    Is there any simple way to work this out ?
Hm, past experience with IPO on SGI machines taught me that there is
nothing much to gain there. In particular since we don't really call any
functions from one module that would gain from inlining into another
module.
 

> P.S. :  If needed, I could run benchmarks for developpers on either 
> opteron+myrinet or itanium2.
Thanks, that will come in useful at some stage.


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David.
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