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The following options can be used for `--enable-simd=` flag to target different SIMD instruction sets:

| `<code>`    | Description                            |
| ----------- | -------------------------------------- |
| `GEN`       | generic portable vector code           |
| `SSE4`      | SSE 4.2 (128 bit)                      |
| `AVX`       | AVX (256 bit)                          |
| `AVXFMA`    | AVX (256 bit) + FMA                    |
| `AVXFMA4`   | AVX (256 bit) + FMA4                   |
| `AVX2`      | AVX 2 (256 bit)                        |
| `AVX512`    | AVX 512 bit                            |
| `QPX`       | QPX (256 bit)                          |

Alternatively, some CPU codenames can be directly used:

| `<code>`    | Description                            |
| ----------- | -------------------------------------- |
| `KNL`       | [Intel Xeon Phi codename Knights Landing](http://ark.intel.com/products/codename/48999/Knights-Landing) |
| `SKL`       | [Intel Skylake with AVX512 support](https://ark.intel.com/products/codename/37572/Skylake) |
| `BGQ`       | Blue Gene/Q                            |


#### Notes (Jan 2018):
- Support for the AVX512 for Intel and GCC>=6. Clang still to be tested.
- For BG/Q only [bgclang](http://trac.alcf.anl.gov/projects/llvm-bgq) is supported. We do not presently plan to support more compilers for this platform.
- BG/Q performances are currently rather poor. This is being investigated for future versions.
- The vector size for the `GEN` target can be specified with the `configure` script option `--enable-gen-simd-width`.


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