[Pw_forum] pw.1.3.0 and ifc 7.1

antonief francesco.antoniella at aquila.infn.it
Wed Dec 3 08:54:46 CET 2003


On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Paolo Giannozzi wrote:

> On Tuesday 02 December 2003 09:49, Goranka Bilalbegovic wrote:
> 
> > I would like to know (at least) on which systems pw.1.3.0 + ifc 7.1 works
> 
> on all systems I have tried (quite a few), including several different beowulf
> clusters, provided that the latest version of ifc is used. For instance:
> IBM BladeServer, 8 * 2.4 GHz dual Xeon, RedHat 9 ;
> 400MHz Pentium 3, SuSe 7.1 (the PC I use at work)
> 
> > and on which it does not ?
> 
> on none that I have tried
> 
> > Up to now a very small statistics shows  that it works on the AMD (one
> > example) and it does not work on the Intel processor (two examples).
> 
> the only difference between AMD and Intel processors I am aware of,
> is that you cannot use the MKL library with the former. You can use ifc 
In fact you can actually use mkl on AMD, using pIII mkl and no processor
specific optimization.
It works, I don't know how fast but it works.
Whishes
Francesco




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