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[FFTW-announce] FFTW 3.2-alpha2 is available, Cell support, MPI |
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Mon, 19 Mar 2007 09:57:12 -0400 |
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Dear FFTW users,
we are pleased to announce the availability of FFTW 3.2-alpha2, which
you can download from the web page:
http://fftw.org/download.html
Please report problems to address@hidden
Cordially,
Matteo Frigo
Steven G. Johnson
Changes since FFTW 3.1.2:
* Support for the Cell processor, donated by IBM Research; see README.Cell
and the Cell section of the manual.
* New 64-bit API: for every "plan_guru" function there is a new "plan_guru64"
function with the same semantics, but which takes fftw_iodim64 instead of
fftw_iodim. fftw_iodim64 is the same as fftw_iodim, except that it takes
ptrdiff_t integer types as parameters, which is a 64-bit type on
64-bit machines. This is only useful for specifying very large transforms
on 64-bit machines. (Internally, FFTW uses ptrdiff_t everywhere
regardless of what API you choose.)
* Experimental MPI support. Complex one- and multi-dimensional FFTs,
multi-dimensional r2r, multi-dimensional r2c/c2r transforms, and
distributed transpose operations, with 1d block distributions.
(This is an alpha preview: routines have not been exhaustively
tested, documentation is incomplete, and some functionality is
missing, e.g. Fortran support.) See mpi/README and also the MPI
section of the manual.
* Significantly faster r2c transforms, especially on machines with SIMD.
* Rewritten multi-threaded support for better performance by
re-using a fixed pool of threads rather than continually
respawning and joining (which nowadays is much slower).
* Support for MIPS paired-single SIMD instructions, donated by
Codesourcery.
* FFTW_WISDOM_ONLY planner flag, to create plan only if wisdom is
available and return NULL otherwise.
* Removed k7 support, which only worked in 32-bit mode and is
becoming obsolete. Use --enable-sse instead.
* Added --with-g77-wrappers configure option to force inclusion
of g77 wrappers, in addition to whatever is needed for the
detected Fortran compilers. This is many intended for GNU/Linux
distros switching to gfortran, but wishing to include both
gfortran and g77 support in FFTW.
* In manual, renamed "guru execute" functions to "new-array execute"
functions, to reduce confusion with the guru planner interface.
(The programming interface is unchanged.)
* Add missing __declspec attribute to threads API functions when compiling
for Windows (thanks to Robert O. Morris for the bug report)
* Fixed missing return value from dfftw_init_threads in Fortran;
thanks to Markus Wetzstein for the bug report.
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