[Bioclusters] icc with ncbi

[Lucas Carey]

>Did you really mean a 30x speedup??

On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Lucas Carey wrote:
> I've built it with icc, but I no longer have the .mk file.
> I seem to remember ~30 speedup for the more computationally intensive blast

This is supposed to be ~30%. If I'd gotten a 30x speedup there'd be no need for parallel blast. 
as for blastn, these are STREAMS measurements I did on a dual P4-2.0Ghz with icc6. No clue as to what version of gcc I'd have been using.
icc -O3 -xW
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Function      Rate (MB/s)   RMS time     Min time     Max time
Copy:        1452.4363       0.0146       0.0110       0.0264
Scale:       1446.1244       0.0225       0.0111       0.0601
Add:         1647.6759       0.0235       0.0146       0.0529
Triad:       1624.4763       0.0242       0.0148       0.0456

gcc -O3
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Function      Rate (MB/s)   RMS time     Min time     Max time
Copy:        1433.1806       0.0112       0.0112       0.0114
Scale:        555.7492       0.0288       0.0288       0.0288
Add:         1648.0107       0.0146       0.0146       0.0146
Triad:        691.8828       0.0347       0.0347       0.0347

gcc
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Function      Rate (MB/s)   RMS time     Min time     Max time
Copy:         943.6746       0.0170       0.0170       0.0173
Scale:        931.7509       0.0173       0.0172       0.0173
Add:         1278.3637       0.0188       0.0188       0.0188
Triad:       1269.7732       0.0189       0.0189       0.0189

-Lucas