Ian Chivers wrote:
> I am trying to help out someone in maths with one of the latest
> xeon systems. dual procesor 2.2Ghz and 512kb cache.
>
> i can't determine from the intel site much about their
> floating point support. there is one reference to
> new 128 bit floating point registers.
http://www.intel.com/design/Pentium4/manuals/24547007.pdf - chapter 11 - is
the place to start. You're referring to the SSE2 feature, which is in all
Pentium 4 processors, not just this new one. The Intel Fortran compilers
(http://developer.intel.com/software/products/) can generate the SSE2
instructions.
More on this processor can be found at
http://www.intel.com/products/server/processors/server/xeon/index.htm
Steve Lionel
Software Products Division
Intel Corporation
Nashua, NH
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