Hi,
Erik: I'm sure about the flags. Not using the ones for SSE3,
despite my processor having those. I'll just try to activate those
as soon as I get a compiling procedure. By now, I even using the --
disable-x86-64-sse flag for configure, just to be sure. ;) Also, I
tried the "CC_FOR_BUILD=gcc" environment, but despite it has gone
throw the invsqrt compilation, I looked in and it was compiling
everything with gcc, and nothing with icc. :(
You so do NOT want to do disable SSE in Gromacs. To get the extra 2%
performance from Intel icc you just killed the assembly loops which
will reduce your performance by roughly 50%.
The Gromacs SSE code is completely portable, and checks if the
instructions are supported at runtime.
Yang: Yes, I'm using the intel compiler with emt64. I reinstalled
the software step by step specifically to be sure about this point.
And I understand that gromacs has an assembly core, and that this
is basically the "heart" of the program speed. But, even thow,
5-10% means something, and every nano-second counts. Specially when
you have a big delay to deal with, and that this 10% mean
0.25ns. ;) Even then, after I successfully compile it we will be
able to say for sure how much if extra performance (if it yelds
any) does the intel compiler gives on AMD64 machines. Moreover, as
I said in a long time ago message: I want to use QM/MM with gromacs
+cpmd, and at this point I really dislike the idea of compiling one
thing with intel (cpmd) and the other with gcc (gromacs). Since I
can't make cpmd work on gcc, I'm trying to make gromacs work on
intel. ;)
We have already tried the intel compiler multiple times (both on ia32
and x86-64 platforms), and it gets you roughly 2% extra performance
in Gromacs.
A really nice thing with icc is that the object format is completely
gcc-compatible, so there shouldn't be any problems mixing.
Cheers,
Erik
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