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Version 1 (Henrik Levämäki, 2016-06-21 12:00) → Version 2/4 (Henrik Levämäki, 2016-07-04 14:37)

h1. Titan compile

The CPUs on Titan support so called AVX/AVX2 instructions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Vector_Extensions), which make floating point-intensive calculations faster (depending on the code, ~2X speed boost vs. Pleione are possible).

The following command can be used to access CPU information (make, model, supported instruction sets etc.):

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less /proc/cpuinfo
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With Intel compilers, one can therefore use the following compiler flag to take advantage of AVX2:

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-xCORE-AVX2
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