[lug] Linux hardware

[Ed Hill]

On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 21:18, Daniel Webb wrote:
> > Out of curiosity, Daniel, what compiler are you using for the Intel and
> > AMD processors?  I recall hearing that Intel's floating point operations
> > are not nearly as good as AMD's but that gcc doesn't take advantage of
> > some of the AMD's capabilities.  Does that seem reasonable based on your
> > experience?
> 
>   We're just using gcc since it's what we know.  Someone in the other
> group may need to run some Fortran90 code, though, so GNU won't cut it for
> that.  Any recommendations out there for a free or low cost Fortran90
> compiler?


The Lahey F90/95 compiler

  http://www.lahey.com/

is the cheapest of the commercial offerings and its working well on our
F90 codes.  Also, Intel has an unsupported and free-for-non-commercial-
use-only F90/95 compiler for Linux at:

  http://www.intel.com/software/products/compilers/flin/noncom.htm

hth,
Ed

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