Use avx2 compile target for STELLOPT on ITP machines - #63
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Review verdict: Request changes Summary: The change is correctly scoped, but the new GCC target is invalid on x86 and will prevent both STELLOPT builds from compiling. CI was still in progress during review. Findings:
Verdict: Request changes — both affected release builds are expected to fail at compiler-option validation. |
gfortran does not accept -march=avx2 as an x86 CPU target. Replace it with the valid core-avx2 target and add -mtune=generic for portability.
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Review verdict: Comment
Summary: The diff correctly replaces the invalid -march=avx2 target with -march=core-avx2 and adds generic tuning in both Linux STELLOPT release configurations. The affected configs and line changes are consistent.
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Verdict: Comment — no code issues found; CI remains pending and does not directly exercise these STELLOPT configurations.
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Closes #41
Problem
All machines at ITP now support the AVX2 instruction set, so the STELLOPT release builds no longer need the machine-specific
-march=nativeflag. Compiling with-march=nativeties each binary to the exact CPU it was built on, which prevents a single build from being portable across the ITP cluster.Change
Replaced
-march=nativewith-march=avx2in the release compiler flags of the two ITP machine STELLOPT configs:scripts/setup/stellopt/make_scluster.incscripts/setup/stellopt/make_vsc5.incSince every ITP machine supports AVX2, the same build can now run across them while still getting SIMD-optimized code.
Tests
The change is a one-word compiler-flag edit in Makefile include files; no runtime tests are affected. The flags were verified to be syntactically valid gfortran options used by the STELLOPT build.