On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, andy law (RI) wrote: > Does anyone have any experience they'd like to share on the topic of > Fortran 9x compilers for linux systems? Recently I installed Intel's C/C++ and Fortran compilers [1] on my laptop (mobile PIII) and my sandbox cluster (4x dual Itanium) [2], and I am very impressed by the quality of the code generated by the compilers. I gain about 8-10 % over g77 on some of my old MD code, and a friend of mine gained about 20 % (he's not hand optimizing his code). I also tried the autoparallellization and on a dual Itanium I got a speed up around 1.6. [1] When used for research, the compilers are free of charge for Linux users. Windows users have to pay - nice move, Intel! [2] Well, it's actually my employer's cluster. Kneth -- Kenneth Geisshirt, M.Sc., Ph.D. http://kenneth.geisshirt.dk Grøndals Parkvej 2A, 3. sal kenneth@geisshirt.dk DK-2720 Vanløse +45 38 87 78 38