CVF on zeon

[sangsul]

Dear Fortran team,

I am using CVF6.6a with CXML direct sparse matrix solver.
I am plannig to buy a dual CPU(Peitium4 zeon) PC.
Which chipset is best choice for me, intel860 or e7500?
Is CVF6.6a capable of optimizing code for zeon processor?

Thank you...

[TimP]

CVF6.6 is quite good at making code run well on all ia32 processors. In itself, it has no facility to parallelize to take advantage of multiple physical and logical processors, nor to generate SSE or SSE2 code. If you wish to optimize specifically for Xeon, Intel IFL should have advantages.
I'll try to skirt around where experts fear to tread on your chipset question; if it is a question of RDRAM vs DDR, you have a cost vs performance tradeoff. If your program uses memory intensively, you might see 10% better performance with RDRAM, and you may need more than the minimum amount of RAM.

[laalajigupta]

dual CPUsangsul wrote the following post at 07-24-2002 6:09 AM:

Dear Fortran team,

I am using CVF6.6a with CXML direct sparse matrix solver.
I am plannig to buy a dual CPU(Peitium4 zeon) PC.
Which chipset is best choice for me, intel860 or e7500?
Is CVF6.6a capable of optimizing code for zeon processor?

(Peitium4 zeon)