Hi,
FWIW, OSC has not had the mic hardware for a couple of years,
so even in Amber 18 i did not build mic pmemd.
scott
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 09:08:59PM +0000, Charles Lin wrote:
> Midpoint is a flag in cntrl however to toggle between dpfp and spdp we need a compile switch.
>
> On Apr 20, 2020 5:00 PM, David A Case <david.case.rutgers.edu> wrote:
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> CAUTION: EXTERNAL EMAIL
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> On Mon, Apr 20, 2020, Charles Lin wrote:
>
> >If I remember correctly openmp was only enabled for the intel compiler in
> >the old make build system.
>
> Ahh...I didn't know that...probably explains why cmake is doing the same
> thing....cc-ing to Jamie Smith, with apologies for not knowing this.
>
> >
> >I think -mic should likely be deprecated for amber 20 as the knight's
> >crossing chips are no longer even being sold by Intel.
> >
> >I believe -mic2 works for KNL and Xeon processors as KNL was kinda just
> >a normal processor with more cores, however these were KNL specific
> >optimizations. However, KNL is also no longer sold by Intel, so we could
> >also deprecate this for Amber 20.
>
> Also info for Jamie. My current plan is to at least remove those
> chapters from the manual. (This is our standard deprecation strategy:
> first remove things from the manual, but leave in the code; people that
> really need it can get instructions from previous manuals.)
>
> NOTE: anyone who thinks this deprecation is a bad idea needs to speak up
> ASAP! But also note: we can always un-do this change with a future
> update if unintended consequences show up.
>
> In this case, we might also disable builds, since we can't test them.
>
> >
> >-midpoint_spdp was to compile a version of the code that was similar to
> >SPFP for CPU.
>
> I figured that. But note that there is no plan '-midpoint' option in
> the current (legacy) configure script. Is midpoint somehow now a
> default?
>
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