On 03/19/12 22:02, Michael Mol wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 10:26 PM, Andrew Lowe <a...@wht.com.au> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> Has anyone played around with the various "better known" compilers on
>>> Gentoo? By "better known", I'm referring to gcc, Intel, llvm, pathscale. My
>>> situation is that I've just started my PhD which requires me to do Finite
>>> Element Analysis, FEA, and Computational Fluid Dynamics, CFD, and I want to
>>> find the "best" compiler for the job. Before anyone says "Why bother, XXX
>>> compiler is only 1 - 2% faster than gcc", in the context of the work I'm
>>> doing this 1 - 2% IS important.
>>>
>>> What I'm looking for is any feedback people may have on ability to compile
>>> the Gentoo environment, the ability to change compilers easily, gcc-config
>>> or flags in make.conf, as to whether the compiler/linker can use the
>>> libraries as compiled by gcc on a "standard" gentoo install and so on.
>>> Obviously there is much web trawling to be done to find what other people
>>> are saying as well.
>>>
>>> Any thoughts, greatly appreciated,
>>> Andrew Lowe
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Think CUDA
>
> Yes. And as a convenient side-effect, it offers a great excuse to
> upgrade your video card with some regularity. The performance of
> mid-grade and high-grade video cards continues to improve rapidly.
>
Sorry, can't do that, I'm using epic,
http://tinyurl.com/83l5o3z
which currently ranks at 151 in the top 500 list :) It's amazing how
fast this list changes, 6 months ago, this machine was at 107 and 6
months before that 87.
Andrew
