Thanks everybody for your comments. I'll dwelve further into it with stricter tests and see what happens. I will also see what I can do with MKL 10.
By the way, Paolo, I couldn't download your benchmark. Wget told me 404 Not Found. Finally, would AMD open sourcing some of their libraries affect us? Regards, Miguel Paolo Giannozzi escribi?: > On Mar 13, 2008, at 20:50 , Miguel Mart?nez Canales wrote: > >> PS: I also swear that the very same Itanium machine used to run >> twice as >> fast as the same laptop, although the free FORTRAN compilers have >> changed >> a lot in the last couple of years. > > and I swear that I hate benchmarking. Anyway, you can find a benchmark > that will tell you something (as opposed to those you tried, that > will tell you > nothing, maybe even less than nothing) here: > http://www.fisica.uniud.it/~giannozz/benchmark.tgz > Paolo > --- > Paolo Giannozzi, Dept of Physics, University of Udine > via delle Scienze 208, 33100 Udine, Italy > Phone +39-0432-558216, fax +39-0432-558222 > -- ---------------------------------------- Miguel Mart?nez Canales Dto. F?sica de la Materia Condensada UPV/EHU Facultad de Ciencia y Tecnolog?a Apdo. 644 48080 Bilbao (Spain) Fax: +34 94 601 3500 Tlf: +34 94 601 5326 ---------------------------------------- "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." George Bernard Shaw
