using ifort on non windows machine

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using ifort on non windows machine

by Mathew Yeates :: Rate this Message:

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Hi
I want to use ifort on a non windows machine (x86_64) but when I look at
the errata the instructions seem to be only for windows. Are there
instructions for my architecture?

I read somewhere on the site that gfortran should give optimal
performance but I am forced to use ifort. How much will I be losing in
speed?

Mathew

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Re: using ifort on non windows machine

by Clint Whaley :: Rate this Message:

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Mathew,

>I want to use ifort on a non windows machine (x86_64) but when I look at
>the errata the instructions seem to be only for windows. Are there
>instructions for my architecture?
>
>I read somewhere on the site that gfortran should give optimal
>performance but I am forced to use ifort. How much will I be losing in
>speed?

Scope:
   http://math-atlas.sourceforge.net/atlas_install/atlas_install.html#SECTION00042000000000000000

Just throw the flags you usually use in the code that will link to this
library.

In general, changing the fortran compiler should have minimal or no impact
on performance.  If you could see a difference it would be in lapack
performance, for routines ATLAS doesn't natively provide, and that don't
get all their performance from the BLAS: I'm not sure if such routines exist :)
In such cases, I would guess ifort to be faster than gfortran, albeit with
possibly unbounded error.

Cheers,
Clint

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