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Re: GU: GAMESS port to Linux



Istvan Cserny said:
> 
> Pedro A M Vazquez <vazquez@IQM.Unicamp.BR> wrote:
> 
> >         I believe this is mentioned on the GAMESS manual, I did a
> > port of GAMESS in 1993 for FreeBSD1.0 and sent it to Mike, after that
> > someone from Germany did slight modifications to compile under Linux too.
> 
> His name is Klaus-Peter Gulden (gulden@chemie.uni-wuerzburg.de).
>             ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Sorry, the manual was not at hand :-)

> Note: 
> 1. the DREAL --> DBLE hack is not necessary if you use g77 instead of
> f2c+gcc
> 2. none of the g77 compiler versions were able to produce a usable
> _optimised_
>    (i.e -O2 or -O3 compiler switch used) code of GAMESS for my AMD
> 5x86/133 CPU
We are runnig gamess compiled with g77-0.5.18 -O2, the results
are:
	Bench10		Bench04		Bench13		Bench07

f2c	72.3		92		310		451
g77	61		78		281		335

this is for a P166 under freebsd2.1.0.

>    (which is actually a fast 486 chip), so I still prefer to use f2c
> (the situation
>    may be different with the Pentium CPU).
> 

Pedro