PathScale EKOPath 5.0 Beta Compiler Performance

[trueblue]

When I try and do the installation using the gui interface, it asks for a license file. How do I get one?

[pszilard]

Thanks for posting this!
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I'm curious if anyone else reading the forums can post benchmarks using their own codes + processor/system details.

Just tried to compile GROMACS with AVX-256 CPU acceleration, but the 02-11 nightly choked on our SIMD intrinsics kernels:

$ make
[  0%] Generating version information
[  0%] Built target gmx_version
[  0%] Building C object src/gmxlib/CMakeFiles/gmx.dir/nonbonded/nb_kernel_avx_256_single/nb_kernel_ElecCoul_VdwCSTab_GeomW3W3_avx_256_single.c.o
Signal: Segmentation fault in Code_Expansion phase.
Error: Signal Segmentation fault in phase Code_Expansion -- processing aborted
*** Internal stack backtrace:
    /opt/ekopath-5.0.0_nightly-2013-02-11/lib/5.0.0/x8664/be() [0xcfbb51]
    /opt/ekopath-5.0.0_nightly-2013-02-11/lib/5.0.0/x8664/be() [0xcfcd99]
    /opt/ekopath-5.0.0_nightly-2013-02-11/lib/5.0.0/x8664/be(ErrMsg_Report+0x55) [0xcfaa7d]
    /opt/ekopath-5.0.0_nightly-2013-02-11/lib/5.0.0/x8664/be(ErrMsgLine+0xbe) [0xcfac26]
    /opt/ekopath-5.0.0_nightly-2013-02-11/lib/5.0.0/x8664/be() [0xcfd58c]
    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x364a0) [0x2afb0d5a54a0]
    /opt/ekopath-5.0.0_nightly-2013-02-11/lib/5.0.0/x8664/be() [0x9c5c5b]
    /opt/ekopath-5.0.0_nightly-2013-02-11/lib/5.0.0/x8664/be() [0x9c588a]
    /opt/ekopath-5.0.0_nightly-2013-02-11/lib/5.0.0/x8664/be() [0x9c47d4]
    /opt/ekopath-5.0.0_nightly-2013-02-11/lib/5.0.0/x8664/be() [0x9cda50]
    /opt/ekopath-5.0.0_nightly-2013-02-11/lib/5.0.0/x8664/be() [0x9c4348]
    /opt/ekopath-5.0.0_nightly-2013-02-11/lib/5.0.0/x8664/be() [0x9c1b3d]
    /opt/ekopath-5.0.0_nightly-2013-02-11/lib/5.0.0/x8664/be() [0x9c18ea]
    /opt/ekopath-5.0.0_nightly-2013-02-11/lib/5.0.0/x8664/be(_Z20Convert_WHIRL_To_OPsP2WN+0x139) [0x9c09e5]
    /opt/ekopath-5.0.0_nightly-2013-02-11/lib/5.0.0/x8664/be(CG_Generate_Code+0x279) [0x8e51cb]
    /opt/ekopath-5.0.0_nightly-2013-02-11/lib/5.0.0/x8664/be() [0x7346d9]
    /opt/ekopath-5.0.0_nightly-2013-02-11/lib/5.0.0/x8664/be() [0x733b7b]
    /opt/ekopath-5.0.0_nightly-2013-02-11/lib/5.0.0/x8664/be(main+0x55f) [0x732dbb]
    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xed) [0x2afb0d59076d]
    /opt/ekopath-5.0.0_nightly-2013-02-11/lib/5.0.0/x8664/be() [0x732629]
pathcc ERROR: execute '/opt/ekopath-5.0.0_nightly-2013-02-11/lib/5.0.0/x8664/be' failed: Died due to unknown signal

Note that I was compiling current git GROMACS 4.6 (release-4-6 branch) with default configuration on a Sandy Bridge machine. Feel free to drop me a mail if you need help with compilation or testing.

PS: And if I disable AVX and fall back to SSE4.1 the code compiles, but (mdrun) segv-s immediately after startup.