Vector data types in fortran

Vector data types in fortran

[burlen]

Hi,
I have a finite difference code written in fortran, currently I use g77 
to build this code. I would like to know if it is possible to leverage 
gcc vector data types, and SSE instructions etc within the fortran code. 
I notice that when using C it is possible to declare variables as vector 
type. A while back we tried to let the fortran compiler(I think it was 
actually pgf) automagically vectorize but we only got about 10% speed 
up. We should get significantly more if all the potential loops were 
vectorized. I would like to hand tune some of the code. Is it going to 
be possible to vectorize the fortran code using g77/gfortran? Where can 
more information be found?
thanks in advance
Burlen

Re: Vector data types in fortran

[Dorit Nuzman]

> Hi,
> I have a finite difference code written in fortran, currently I use g77
> to build this code. I would like to know if it is possible to leverage
> gcc vector data types, and SSE instructions etc within the fortran code.
> I notice that when using C it is possible to declare variables as vector
> type. A while back we tried to let the fortran compiler(I think it was
> actually pgf) automagically vectorize but we only got about 10% speed
> up. We should get significantly more if all the potential loops were
> vectorized. I would like to hand tune some of the code. Is it going to
> be possible to vectorize the fortran code using g77/gfortran? Where can
> more information be found?

-ftree-vectorize enables vectorization in gcc (enabled by default under -O3
since gcc4.3). You may also need to use -fassociative-math if you have
reductions on floats. There's some information here:
http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/tree-ssa/vectorization.html, but not much
tuning hints and such. You can use -ftree-vectorizer-verbose=#, which will
report which loops got vectorized and which not and why.

dorit


> thanks in advance
> Burlen
>
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