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From: Justin Bronder <jsbronder@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-cluster@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-cluster] Compiler choice
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 19:13:06
Message-Id: 8d39cca0604131213t27da58fah9c22a712672e9098@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-cluster] Compiler choice by Brady Catherman
1 You can grab an evaluation version on this site:
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3 http://www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/fortran/xlfortran/features/linux/
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5 It's questionable if this will work on Gentoo or not, I've heard
6 people saying things both ways. I'll also be looking into this
7 soon myself.
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10 On 4/13/06, Brady Catherman <bradyc@××××××.edu> wrote:
11 >
12 > It is my understanding that GCC 4.1 is considered totally unstable on
13 > gentoo. Anyways.. how would I go about getting the IBM compiler..
14 > Ibm's web page flat out sucks for searching for things like that..
15 >
16 >
17 > On Apr 13, 2006, at 11:27 AM, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
18 >
19 > > Brady Catherman wrote:
20 > >> Anyways, the Apple run of HPL was compiled against the Accelerate
21 > >> framework while the Gentoo side was compiled against the most
22 > >> recent Goto libraries (in January 2006). The Apple side was
23 > >> compiled with a custom version of GCC 4.0.2 (XCode doesn't come
24 > >> with fortran) and the Linux side was compiled with GCC 4.0.2 from
25 > >> Gentoo's ebuild.
26 > >
27 > > If you want to use gcc rather than the IBM compilers, please use
28 > > 4.1. It has a large number of improvements relative to 4.0
29 > > (particularly relevant ones in gfortran), and is the one that will
30 > > eventually enter ~arch.
31 > >
32 > > Thanks,
33 > > Donnie
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