#2381: update Vector's AltiVec support
| Reporter: | Roland Haas |
| Status: | new |
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| Version: | |
| Type: | bug |
| Priority: | major |
| Component: | EinsteinToolkit thorn |
Summit uses POWER9 processors, whose AltiVec SIMD engine accumulated bugs in Vectors. Pull request https://bitbucket.org/cactuscode/cactusutils/pull-requests/24/vectors-updates-for-altivec-and-knl/diff addresses these.
The pull request is from just before the Mayer release and has seen extensive discussion between @Erik Schnetter and myself as well as triggering creating a better test harness for Vectors (see #2380).
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Ticket URL: https://bitbucket.org/einsteintoolkit/tickets/issues/2381/update-vectors-altivec-support