Hi folks, I suspect this is a request for a sanity check than a bug report:
I've been successfully compiling an optimised version of R for several years using the Intel compiler and MKL. I've just test-run the new Intel 15.0 compiler suite, and I'm seeing a few numeric failures that I don't see using the same build method with Intel 13.0. I've attached the output of "make check". Build details are below. The most notable failures are in lapack.R, though I see from the comments in the output that different lapack and blas libraries may produce different signs for some outputs which can be safely ignored. My linear algebra's a bit rusty, so I'd like a sanity check: can all the sign differences be safely ignored in the attached output? (And a possible RFC: at least for the purposes of make check, can the scripts output abs() values for all cases where sign isn't an issue?) The other failures are in stats-Ex.R. It looks like most of the problem lines are outputs from a PCA-like function, so their sign differences might due to the eigenvalue exception comment in lapack.R. The final failures are in the "Grand Total" lines from stats-Ex.R. The values differ in the 7th sig fig, so a pretty small relative error. I think I'm using compiler flags that rule out any fast-math imprecisions - so I'm wondering if this result is actually within the acceptable variation of the IEE 754 standard? Build details: OS is Scientific Linux 6.4, architecture is Westmere. "icc -v" gives: icc version 15.0.0 (gcc version 4.4.7 compatibility) Environment variables are: export CC=icc export CFLAGS="-O3 -xHOST -axCORE-AVX-I -fp-model precise" export FC=ifort export F77=ifort export FFLAGS="-O3 -xHOST -axCORE-AVX-I -fp-model precise" export FCFLAGS="-O3 -xHOST -axCORE-AVX-I -fp-model precise" export CXX=icpc export CXXFLAGS="-O3 -xHOST -axCORE-AVX-I -fp-model precise" export JAVA_HOME=/etc/alternatives/java_sdk_1.6.0 Configure command is: ./configure --with-blas=-mkl=sequential --with-lapack=-mkl=sequential --disable-openmp --with-tcl-config=/usr/shared_apps/packages/tcl-8.5.12/lib/tclConfig.sh --with-tk-config=/usr/shared_apps/packages/tk-8.5.12/lib/tkConfig.sh Regards, Mike. ----- Dr Mike Pacey, Email: m.pa...@lancaster.ac.uk<mailto:m.pa...@lancaster.ac.uk> HPC Manager, Phone: 01524 510659 Information Systems Services, Fax: 01524 594459 ISS Building, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4WA
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