[Beowulf] AMD Athlon with Intel Fortran Compiler, which options?

[Mikhail Kuzminsky]

In message from Joe Landman <landman at scalableinformatics.com> (Tue, 22 
Mar 2005 18:43:32 -0500):
>I thought they still had processor check code in there, that checks 
>the intel CPU id, and defaults to p3/p4 base w/o SSE.  You can compile 
>it, it just might not select that code path (SSE*).   Does this for 
> Opterons.
   The checks of CPUID (at runtime) were added to 8.1 versions of 
Intel compiler.

>
>Stuart Midgley wrote:
>> Actually you can use everything except the SSE3 stuff. 
If I remember correctly, Athlon's have no SSE2 support.

Mikhail Kuzminsky
Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry
Moscow

>> Once the 
>>2.6GHz 
>> Opterons are out and about, you will be able to use SSE3 as well.
>> 
>> I have managed to compile code in 64bit mode on an opteron using the 
>> Intel compilers.  If I remember correctly, I used something like
>> 
>>     -fast -xW
>> 
>> whereas -fast usually turns on -xP which gives SSE3 stuff.
>> 
>> Stu.
>
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