Thank you for the advice. I've built OpenFOAM with gcc many times, so this is no longer a problem. It was at first because OF came with a precompiled binaries of gcc and the config scripts searched for that binaries. If for some reason the binaries wouldn't work, a begginer would have to change the config. scripts, which were a bit confusing since the solver has about 150 MB of source code. :) In the OpenFOAM-1.5-dev release (the one my mentor maintains) things are significantly improved.
I'll stick to gcc for now since my main goal is to assemble and configure a little Beowulf and get it to run simulations as soon as possible (having in mind the directions from the books, online resources and the message archive, and the most valued advice from all of you here :). Later I'll use the trial version of Intel and try and test the difference. As for GotoBLAS... OpenFOAM has all the numerical slovers hardcoded: cholesky, conjugate gradient, amg preconditioning...., all the numerics needed for simulations. When I get it to run, I'll try and redirect that work to GotoBLAS routines and test it. Seems I have a LOT to do. :) Tomislav _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
