Hi,
There have been some reports on newer ia64 processors being quite fast
with the Fortran kernels instead (even faster than asm!), so I would
try that.
This has to do with the brain-dead architecture on ia64. The asm
kernels were written for original itanium2 timings, but with the
register rotation loops and lack of dynamic instruction scheduling you
would get lots of pipeline stalls/bubbles if Intel ever changed their
instruction latencies, and that might have happend now.
Considering the limited adoption of ia64 I don't think we're very
likely to keep updating those kernels - the first thing on the agenda
right now will rather be improved performance of x86 SSE kernels for
Gromacs 4.1.
Cheers,
Erik
On Mar 3, 2009, at 8:14 PM, David van der Spoel wrote:
Marius Retegan wrote:
Hello
Since I was unable to get a working version for Gromacs 4.0.4 on a
Itanium 2 machine with the ia64 nonbonded kernel, I was wondering
what
would be the lost in speed if I would disable the assembly loops?
About a factor of two. What's the problem with compiling?
Thanks,
Marius
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