[gmx-users] GROMACS 4.6-beta2 released

[Justin Lemkul]

On 12/6/12 9:42 PM, Yorquant Wang wrote:
> Hi Mark:
>      There is a new instruction set architecture (*Advanced Vector Extensions
> * (AVX)) that can make float calculation in Intel CPU faster two times
> compared with the old instruction set. I want to know if the Gromacs
> developers have a plan to make GMX support AVX. if the GMX can support GMX,
> I think maybe two times speed-up in GMX will be gotten immediately.
>

The present release supports AVX.

-Justin

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