diff --git a/docs.it4i/software/intel/intel-suite/intel-compilers.md b/docs.it4i/software/intel/intel-suite/intel-compilers.md index 3182f7b055f1671b53b450e6fe30e73bcd95bfb6..06d960742d456b3ee6db2a33c20d6cfe9b3b063c 100644 --- a/docs.it4i/software/intel/intel-suite/intel-compilers.md +++ b/docs.it4i/software/intel/intel-suite/intel-compilers.md @@ -2,6 +2,10 @@ ## Introduction + Intel compilers are compilers for Intel processor-based systems, available for Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS operating systems. + +## Installed Versions + Intel compilers are available in multiple versions via the `intel` module. The compilers include the icc C and C++ compiler and the ifort Fortran 77/90/95 compiler. ```console @@ -10,6 +14,8 @@ $ icc -v $ ifort -v ``` +# AVX2 Vectorization + Intel compilers provide vectorization of the code via the AVX2 instructions and support threading parallelization via OpenMP. For maximum performance on the Salomon cluster compute nodes, compile your programs using the AVX2 instructions, with reporting where the vectorization was used. We recommend the following compilation options for high performance: