[mirko]

Hi,

I am compiling the -dev branch of OF (as of today, it's been a week, but I am pretty sure that I am getting somewhere -- famous last words).

I am doing this on a 64-bit RHEL with two dual core intel processors. Does the -march=opteron flag that I see invoked hurt, help, or not matter?

Thank you,

Mirko

[dkingsley]

OpenFOAM-1.5.x also has the -march=opteron as the default setting and I have been researching the effects of this setting on Xeon emt64 processors for the last few days.

Today I came acrross this article: http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/effects-of-architecture-selection-switc hes

which seems to indicate that Intel users are lossing ~17% with the default setting.

The next time I merge the 1.5.x sources I am going to try -march=nocona.

Has anyone used the switch -mfpmath=sse with OpenFOAM?

[mattijs]

We've tried various and differences are negligible. The only one that really matters is -ffast-math which we don't put on by default since it disables floating point error trapping (sigfpe).

There is no option on gcc (as far as I know) to enable floating point reordering but still enable floating point error trapping.

If you have different findings let us know.