FFTW 3.3-beta1 available (Was: fftw: Usage of SSE in 64bit?)
Just wanted to let you folks know that FFTW version 3.3-beta1 is now
available from www.fftw.org, with the final 3.3 release scheduled for
July 25.
This version introduces several major features that will affect the
Debian packaging:
* Support for AVX instructions. The i386 and amd64 packages should be
configured with --enable-sse2 --enable-avx in order to include kernels
with both of these types of SIMD instructions. It is still safe to ship
this binary on older processors, because the new instructions are
automatically disabled at runtime if they are not supported on the CPU.
* Support for MPI parallelism (previously only available in buggy alpha
form). Thanks to the multiple MPI implementations supported on Debian,
this probably means that you will need to package libfftw3-openmpi,
libfftw3-lam, libfftw3-mpich, etcetera.
* Support for quadruple precision (__float128) in gcc >= 4.6. This is
enabled with --enable-quad-precision, and produces a libfftw3q library.
* Support for a new Fortran 2003 interface, which works in gfortran and
allows type-checked access to FFTW from Fortran. (This only adds a
single file to /usr/include, so the package modification is trivial.)
The new release is binary-compatible with the previous FFTW 3.3.2
release, however, so it is a drop-in replacement and Debian need not
create a new package.
We are especially interested in feedback from Debian's porting teams
before the July 25 final-release date, since we no longer have easy
access to many of the Debian architectures for testing. (You can just
compile FFTW and do 'make check'.)
Regards,
Steven G. Johnson
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