Translation on a system with SuSe 9.3. The translation is using the -static link flag. Compilation used the GNU compiler.

This is still a beta version. Much has been changed to prepare for multi-threaded running. There are also many new features, but the manual is still to be put in the distribution. There are also many bug fixes. Unfortunately the extensive changing of the code may have introduced some new bugs. It seems safe, but just be careful for now.

form : <1301 Kb> The FORM Pentium executable with gcc, 25-feb-2007.

TFORM is the multithreaded version. Currently for running it in multithreaded mode all you have to do is to specify:

tform -w# restoftail

in which # is the number of worker threads. In addition there is one master thread and if # = 1 or 0 only the master will run. Note that in multithreaded mode some of the big buffers are allocated twice. Note this is the first time this binary leaves my control. There are bound to be problems. For my programs typical improvement factors are 1.7 for a two processor machine and about 3.2 for a four processor machine. YMMV.

tform : <1400 Kb> The TFORM Pentium executable with gcc, 25-feb-2007.

There are also Opteron executables. These have been translated on a Quad Opteron machine that runs scientific linux in 64-bits mode.

form_opt : <1265 Kb> The FORM Opteron executable with gcc, 25-feb-2007.

tform_opt : <1352 Kb> The TFORM Opteron executable with gcc, 25-feb-2007.

Please report bugs and send suggestions to form@nikhef.nl or t68@nikhef.nl.