Specifications

April 2012 v1 AMD Opteron™ 6200 Linux Tuning Guide

7.0 AMD Reference Material

• X86 Open64 Compilers Suite: http://developer.amd.com/tools/open64/

• Using the x86 Open64 Compiler Suite: http://developer.amd.com/tools/open64/Documents/open64.html

• X86 Open64 4.2.5.1 Release Notes: http://developer.amd.com/tools/open64/assets/ReleaseNotes.txt

• AMD Developer Tools: http://developer.amd.com/tools/

• AMD Libraries (ACML, LibM, etc.): http://developer.amd.com/libraries/

• AMD Opteron™ 4200/6200 Series processors Compiler Options Quick Guide:

http://developer.amd.com/Assets/CompilerOptQuickRef-62004200.pdf

• AMD OpenCL™ Zone: http://developer.amd.com/zones/OpenCLZone/

• AMD HPC: http://www.amd.com/hpc

• The Software Optimization Guide for Family 15h provides an excellent description of the microarchitecture

followed by hundreds of pages on code generation cases:

http://support.amd.com/us/Processor_TechDocs/47414_15h_sw_opt_guide.pdf

• AMD APP SDK Documentation:

http://developer.amd.com/sdks/AMDAPPSDK/documentation/Pages/default.aspx

• ACML Information:

http://developer.amd.com/libraries/acml/features/pages/default.aspx

• AMD64 Architecture Programmer’s Manual Volume 6: 128-Bit and 256-Bit XOP and FMA4 Instructions:

http://support.amd.com/us/Embedded_TechDocs/43479.pdf

• Shared Level-1 instruction-cache performance on AMD family 15h CPUs whitepaper:

http://developer.amd.com/Assets/SharedL1InstructionCacheonAMD15hCPU.pdf

• 2- and 4-socket results for the AMD Opteron™ 6276 Series processors (16-core, 2.3Ghz). The SPEC runs

used the X86 Open64 Compiler Suite:

http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2011q4/cpu2006-20111025-18742.pdf

http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2011q4/cpu2006-20111025-18748.pdf