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 -- High Performance Computing Linpack Benchmark (HPL)                
    HPL - 2.3 - December 2, 2018                        
    Antoine P. Petitet                                                
    University of Tennessee, Knoxville                                
    Innovative Computing Laboratory                                 
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       Intel(R) Distribution for LINPACK* Benchmark
       *Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.
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Package Contents 
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This package contains Intel(R) Distribution for LINPACK* Benchmark.
It is optimized for Intel(R) Xeon(R) and Intel(R) Xeon Phi(TM) processors. 
First generation of Intel(R) Xeon Phi(TM) Product Family (codename Knights
Corner) is not supported.

Pre-built binaries linked with Intel(R) MPI are included in this package. 
In addition, Intel(R) Distribution for LINPACK* Benchmark binary linked with
a third party MPI implementation can be created using the Intel(R) MKL MPI
wrappers. 

The package contains the following files:

COPYRIGHT                 : Original Netlib HPL copyright document

readme.txt                : This document

runme_intel64_dynamic.bat : Run script for dynamically linked MPI 

runme_intel64_prv.bat     : Script used by above script

xhpl_intel64_dynamic.exe  : Intel(R) Distribution for LINPACK* Benchmark binary
                            dynamically linked with Intel(R) MPI

HPL.dat                   : HPL configuration file

build.bat                 : Build script for creating Intel(R) Distribution for
                            LINPACK* Benchmark binary linked with third party
                            MPI implementation 

HPL_main.c                : Source code required to build Intel(R) Distribution
                            for LINPACK* Benchmark binary with third party MPI
                            implementation.

libhpl_intel64.lib        : Library file required to build Intel(R) Distribution
                            for LINPACK* Benchmark binary with third party MPI
                            implementation. 

Make.Windows_Intel64      : Makefile for Netlib HPL to build Windows binary with nmake

Blocking size (NB) recommendation
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Recommended blocking sizes (NB in HPL.dat) are listed below for various Intel(R) 
architectures:

Intel(R) Xeon(R) Processor X56*/E56*/E7-*/E7*/X7*                             : 256
Intel(R) Xeon(R) Processor E26*/E26* v2                                       : 256
Intel(R) Xeon(R) Processor E26* v3/E26* v4                                    : 192
Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 Processor                                                : 192
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 Processor                                                : 192
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 Processor                                                : 192
Intel(R) Xeon Phi(TM) Processor 72*                                           : 336
Intel(R) Xeon(R) Scalable Processors                                          : 384

Building Intel(R) Distribution for LINPACK* Benchmark for third party MPI
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After setting MPI environment, please run build.bat script in this directory.
"xhpl.exe" binary will be built after executing "./build.bat" script.

Building Intel(R) Distribution for LINPACK* Benchmark from source code
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Netlib HPL source code can be obtained from

    http://www.netlib.org/benchmark/hpl/

After extracting source code, 

1. Copy Make.Windows_Intel64 into HPL source code

     $> cp Make.Windows_Intel64 .

2. Edit Make.Windows_intel64 appropriately

3. Build HPL binary

     $> nmake -f Make.Windows_Intel64

4. Binary will be located in current directory

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