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  • From: fdsa fda <yelinhui1@yahoo.com>
  • To: forum@abinit.org
  • Subject: RE: [abinit-forum] performance optimization on Linux cluster
  • Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 01:36:52 -0800 (PST)

Mike,

Thank you for your reply.

Linhui


--- "Haverty, Michael G" <michael.g.haverty@intel.com>
wrote:
> Hi Linhui,
> The optimization options used for the Xeon and
> Pentium IV processors
> should be the same.
> The same optimization options ("-tpp6 -axK" for
> Pentium III & "-tpp7
> -axW" for Pentium 4's") can be used for both the
> Intel C Compiler (icc)
> and the Intel Fortran Compiler (ifc).
> Mike
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fdsa fda [mailto:yelinhui1@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 8:30 PM
> To: forum@abinit.org
> Subject: RE: [abinit-forum] performance optimization
> on Linux cluster
>
> Dear Mike,
>
> Sorry I forget to ask you what shall be the
> optimization options for Xeon processor?
>
> By the way, what shall be the optimization options
> for
> icc compiler, for both PIII and Xeon processors?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Linhui
>
>
> --- "Haverty, Michael G"
> <michael.g.haverty@intel.com>
> wrote:
> > Hello Linhui and all,
> > Some of the compiler optimization options that
> you
> > are using are
> > for the pgf90 compiler. To use the Intel Fortran
> > Compiler's processor
> > specific optimizations for Intel Pentium III's you
> > need to use the flags
> > "-tpp6 -axK" to replace the "-tp p6" in your
> FFLAGS
> > line. For Intel
> > Pentium 4's the flags would be "-tpp7 -axW"
> > Mike
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: fdsa fda [mailto:yelinhui1@yahoo.com]
> > Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 8:15 PM
> > To: forum@abinit.org
> > Subject: [abinit-forum] performance optimization
> on
> > Linux cluster
> >
> > Dear Gonze, dear all,
> >
> > I'm compiling abinit on a PIII Linux cluster
> > connected
> > by 100Mbit Ethernet. The binaries are produced
> with
> > little trouble. After some trivial tests I start a
> > real complex job, which contains 40 atoms in the
> > unit
> > cell. I found the performance is not much
> satisfied.
> >
> >
> > Now I'm considering recompilation by more
> > optimization.
> >
> > I use Intel Fortran Compiler(ifc, unfortunately it
> > has
> > the same name as the ifc utility of abinit, which
> > causes me a little trouble), and MKL math library
> > with
> > it.
> >
> > For all source files I use compiler options
> >
> > FFLAGS="-O3 -w -mp -tp p6 -unroll 3"
> >
> > For linking I substitute the appended blas and
> > lapack
> > with MKL:
> >
> > LIBS=-L/usr/local/lib -lguide -lmkl_def
> -lmkl_lapack
> > -lmkl_p3
> >
> > OK. The binary(abinip) is smoothly generated.
> >
> > I'm still testing the new binary. To my
> expectation
> > it
> > should be faster than the default one. But, does
> > anyone know whether there are still other measures
> > to
> > gain more optimization in compilatioin?
> >
> > Another problem, how to gain maximum parallel
> > efficience during job run? Suppose I use 8 special
> > k-points in Brillouin zone integration, is it
> > meaningful to use more than 8 nodes in parallel
> job?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> >
> >
> > Linhui
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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