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On 03/19/12 22:02, Michael Mol wrote: |
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> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 10:26 PM, Andrew Lowe <agl@×××××××.au> wrote: |
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>>> Hi all, |
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>>> Has anyone played around with the various "better known" compilers on |
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>>> Gentoo? By "better known", I'm referring to gcc, Intel, llvm, pathscale. My |
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>>> situation is that I've just started my PhD which requires me to do Finite |
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>>> Element Analysis, FEA, and Computational Fluid Dynamics, CFD, and I want to |
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>>> find the "best" compiler for the job. Before anyone says "Why bother, XXX |
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>>> compiler is only 1 - 2% faster than gcc", in the context of the work I'm |
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>>> doing this 1 - 2% IS important. |
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>>> What I'm looking for is any feedback people may have on ability to compile |
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>>> the Gentoo environment, the ability to change compilers easily, gcc-config |
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>>> or flags in make.conf, as to whether the compiler/linker can use the |
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>>> libraries as compiled by gcc on a "standard" gentoo install and so on. |
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>>> Obviously there is much web trawling to be done to find what other people |
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>>> are saying as well. |
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>>> |
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>>> Any thoughts, greatly appreciated, |
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>>> Andrew Lowe |
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>>> |
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>>> |
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>> Think CUDA |
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> Yes. And as a convenient side-effect, it offers a great excuse to |
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> upgrade your video card with some regularity. The performance of |
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> mid-grade and high-grade video cards continues to improve rapidly. |
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Sorry, can't do that, I'm using epic, |
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http://tinyurl.com/83l5o3z |
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which currently ranks at 151 in the top 500 list :) It's amazing how |
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fast this list changes, 6 months ago, this machine was at 107 and 6 |
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months before that 87. |
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Andrew |
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