MPI2007 Flag Description
Intel Corporation Discovery (Intel Xeon X7560, 2.27 GHz, DDR3-1066 MHz, SMT off, Turbo on)

Base Optimization Flags

C benchmarks

• • -O3
  • 
  • OPTIMIZE

  • Enables O2 optimizations plus more aggressive optimizations, such as prefetching, scalar replacement, and loop and memory access transformations. Enables optimizations for maximum speed, such as:
    - Loop unrolling, including instruction scheduling
    - Code replication to eliminate branches
    - Padding the size of certain power-of-two arrays to allow more efficient cache use.
    On IA-32 and Intel EM64T processors, when O3 is used with options -ax or -x (Linux) or with options /Qax or /Qx (Windows), the compiler performs more aggressive data dependency analysis than for O2, which may result in longer compilation times.
    The O3 optimizations may not cause higher performance unless loop and memory access transformations take place. The optimizations may slow down code in some cases compared to O2 optimizations.
    The O3 option is recommended for applications that have loops that heavily use floating-point calculations and process large data sets. On IA-32 Windows platforms, -O3 sets the following:

    /GF (/Qvc7 and above), /Gf (/Qvc6 and below), and /Ob2

  • Includes:
    • -GF
    • -Gf
    • -Ob_n
    • -O2
      • -Oi-
      • -Gs
      • -Oy
      • -Gy
      • -Os
      • -GF
      • -Gf
      • -Ob_n
      • -Og
      • -O1
        • -unroll_n
        • -Oi-
        • -Op-
        • -Oy
        • -Gy
        • -Os
        • -GF
        • -Gf
        • -Ob_n
        • -Og
• • -xSSE4.2
  • 
  • OPTIMIZE

  • Code is optimized for Intel(R) processors with support for SSE 4.2 instructions. The resulting code may contain unconditional use of features that are not supported on other processors. This option also enables new optimizations in addition to Intel processor-specific optimizations including advanced data layout and code restructuring optimizations to improve memory accesses for Intel processors.

    Do not use this option if you are executing a program on a processor that is not an Intel processor. If you use this option on a non-compatible processor to compile the main program (in Fortran) or the function main() in C/C++, the program will display a fatal run-time error if they are executed on unsupported processors.

• • -no-prec-div
  • 
  • OPTIMIZE
  • (disable/enable[default] -[no-]prec-div)

    -prec-div improves precision of floating-point divides. It has a slight impact on speed. -no-prec-div disables this option and enables optimizations that give slightly less precise results than full IEEE division.

    When you specify -no-prec-div along with some optimizations, such as -xN and -xB (Linux) or /QxN and /QxB (Windows), the compiler may change floating-point division computations into multiplication by the reciprocal of the denominator. For example, A/B is computed as A * (1/B) to improve the speed of the computation.

    However, sometimes the value produced by this transformation is not as accurate as full IEEE division. When it is important to have fully precise IEEE division, do not use -no-prec-div which will enable the default -prec-div and the result is more accurate, with some loss of performance.

C++ benchmarks

126.lammps

• • -O3
  • 
  • OPTIMIZE

  • Enables O2 optimizations plus more aggressive optimizations, such as prefetching, scalar replacement, and loop and memory access transformations. Enables optimizations for maximum speed, such as:
    - Loop unrolling, including instruction scheduling
    - Code replication to eliminate branches
    - Padding the size of certain power-of-two arrays to allow more efficient cache use.
    On IA-32 and Intel EM64T processors, when O3 is used with options -ax or -x (Linux) or with options /Qax or /Qx (Windows), the compiler performs more aggressive data dependency analysis than for O2, which may result in longer compilation times.
    The O3 optimizations may not cause higher performance unless loop and memory access transformations take place. The optimizations may slow down code in some cases compared to O2 optimizations.
    The O3 option is recommended for applications that have loops that heavily use floating-point calculations and process large data sets. On IA-32 Windows platforms, -O3 sets the following:

    /GF (/Qvc7 and above), /Gf (/Qvc6 and below), and /Ob2

  • Includes:
    • -GF
    • -Gf
    • -Ob_n
    • -O2
      • -Oi-
      • -Gs
      • -Oy
      • -Gy
      • -Os
      • -GF
      • -Gf
      • -Ob_n
      • -Og
      • -O1
        • -unroll_n
        • -Oi-
        • -Op-
        • -Oy
        • -Gy
        • -Os
        • -GF
        • -Gf
        • -Ob_n
        • -Og
• • -xSSE4.2
  • 
  • OPTIMIZE

  • Code is optimized for Intel(R) processors with support for SSE 4.2 instructions. The resulting code may contain unconditional use of features that are not supported on other processors. This option also enables new optimizations in addition to Intel processor-specific optimizations including advanced data layout and code restructuring optimizations to improve memory accesses for Intel processors.

    Do not use this option if you are executing a program on a processor that is not an Intel processor. If you use this option on a non-compatible processor to compile the main program (in Fortran) or the function main() in C/C++, the program will display a fatal run-time error if they are executed on unsupported processors.

• • -no-prec-div
  • 
  • OPTIMIZE
  • (disable/enable[default] -[no-]prec-div)

    -prec-div improves precision of floating-point divides. It has a slight impact on speed. -no-prec-div disables this option and enables optimizations that give slightly less precise results than full IEEE division.

    When you specify -no-prec-div along with some optimizations, such as -xN and -xB (Linux) or /QxN and /QxB (Windows), the compiler may change floating-point division computations into multiplication by the reciprocal of the denominator. For example, A/B is computed as A * (1/B) to improve the speed of the computation.

    However, sometimes the value produced by this transformation is not as accurate as full IEEE division. When it is important to have fully precise IEEE division, do not use -no-prec-div which will enable the default -prec-div and the result is more accurate, with some loss of performance.

Fortran benchmarks

• • -O3
  • 
  • OPTIMIZE

  • Enables O2 optimizations plus more aggressive optimizations, such as prefetching, scalar replacement, and loop and memory access transformations. Enables optimizations for maximum speed, such as:
    - Loop unrolling, including instruction scheduling
    - Code replication to eliminate branches
    - Padding the size of certain power-of-two arrays to allow more efficient cache use.
    On IA-32 and Intel EM64T processors, when O3 is used with options -ax or -x (Linux) or with options /Qax or /Qx (Windows), the compiler performs more aggressive data dependency analysis than for O2, which may result in longer compilation times.
    The O3 optimizations may not cause higher performance unless loop and memory access transformations take place. The optimizations may slow down code in some cases compared to O2 optimizations.
    The O3 option is recommended for applications that have loops that heavily use floating-point calculations and process large data sets. On IA-32 Windows platforms, -O3 sets the following:

    /GF (/Qvc7 and above), /Gf (/Qvc6 and below), and /Ob2

  • Includes:
    • -GF
    • -Gf
    • -Ob_n
    • -O2
      • -Oi-
      • -Gs
      • -Oy
      • -Gy
      • -Os
      • -GF
      • -Gf
      • -Ob_n
      • -Og
      • -O1
        • -unroll_n
        • -Oi-
        • -Op-
        • -Oy
        • -Gy
        • -Os
        • -GF
        • -Gf
        • -Ob_n
        • -Og
• • -xSSE4.2
  • 
  • OPTIMIZE

  • Code is optimized for Intel(R) processors with support for SSE 4.2 instructions. The resulting code may contain unconditional use of features that are not supported on other processors. This option also enables new optimizations in addition to Intel processor-specific optimizations including advanced data layout and code restructuring optimizations to improve memory accesses for Intel processors.

    Do not use this option if you are executing a program on a processor that is not an Intel processor. If you use this option on a non-compatible processor to compile the main program (in Fortran) or the function main() in C/C++, the program will display a fatal run-time error if they are executed on unsupported processors.

• • -no-prec-div
  • 
  • OPTIMIZE
  • (disable/enable[default] -[no-]prec-div)

    -prec-div improves precision of floating-point divides. It has a slight impact on speed. -no-prec-div disables this option and enables optimizations that give slightly less precise results than full IEEE division.

    When you specify -no-prec-div along with some optimizations, such as -xN and -xB (Linux) or /QxN and /QxB (Windows), the compiler may change floating-point division computations into multiplication by the reciprocal of the denominator. For example, A/B is computed as A * (1/B) to improve the speed of the computation.

    However, sometimes the value produced by this transformation is not as accurate as full IEEE division. When it is important to have fully precise IEEE division, do not use -no-prec-div which will enable the default -prec-div and the result is more accurate, with some loss of performance.

Benchmarks using both Fortran and C

• • -O3
  • 
  • OPTIMIZE

  • Enables O2 optimizations plus more aggressive optimizations, such as prefetching, scalar replacement, and loop and memory access transformations. Enables optimizations for maximum speed, such as:
    - Loop unrolling, including instruction scheduling
    - Code replication to eliminate branches
    - Padding the size of certain power-of-two arrays to allow more efficient cache use.
    On IA-32 and Intel EM64T processors, when O3 is used with options -ax or -x (Linux) or with options /Qax or /Qx (Windows), the compiler performs more aggressive data dependency analysis than for O2, which may result in longer compilation times.
    The O3 optimizations may not cause higher performance unless loop and memory access transformations take place. The optimizations may slow down code in some cases compared to O2 optimizations.
    The O3 option is recommended for applications that have loops that heavily use floating-point calculations and process large data sets. On IA-32 Windows platforms, -O3 sets the following:

    /GF (/Qvc7 and above), /Gf (/Qvc6 and below), and /Ob2

  • Includes:
    • -GF
    • -Gf
    • -Ob_n
    • -O2
      • -Oi-
      • -Gs
      • -Oy
      • -Gy
      • -Os
      • -GF
      • -Gf
      • -Ob_n
      • -Og
      • -O1
        • -unroll_n
        • -Oi-
        • -Op-
        • -Oy
        • -Gy
        • -Os
        • -GF
        • -Gf
        • -Ob_n
        • -Og
• • -xSSE4.2
  • 
  • OPTIMIZE

  • Code is optimized for Intel(R) processors with support for SSE 4.2 instructions. The resulting code may contain unconditional use of features that are not supported on other processors. This option also enables new optimizations in addition to Intel processor-specific optimizations including advanced data layout and code restructuring optimizations to improve memory accesses for Intel processors.

    Do not use this option if you are executing a program on a processor that is not an Intel processor. If you use this option on a non-compatible processor to compile the main program (in Fortran) or the function main() in C/C++, the program will display a fatal run-time error if they are executed on unsupported processors.

• • -no-prec-div
  • 
  • OPTIMIZE
  • (disable/enable[default] -[no-]prec-div)

    -prec-div improves precision of floating-point divides. It has a slight impact on speed. -no-prec-div disables this option and enables optimizations that give slightly less precise results than full IEEE division.

    When you specify -no-prec-div along with some optimizations, such as -xN and -xB (Linux) or /QxN and /QxB (Windows), the compiler may change floating-point division computations into multiplication by the reciprocal of the denominator. For example, A/B is computed as A * (1/B) to improve the speed of the computation.

    However, sometimes the value produced by this transformation is not as accurate as full IEEE division. When it is important to have fully precise IEEE division, do not use -no-prec-div which will enable the default -prec-div and the result is more accurate, with some loss of performance.