If you find any problem or any feature missing that you think should be present, and it is not listed here, please let us know  by reporting as a "Problem on computing" through the ECMWF Support Portal mentioning "Atos" in the summary.

Atos HPCF is not operational platform yet, and many features or elements may be gradually added as complete setup is finalised. Here is a list of the known limitations, missing features and issues.

Missing Features

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Known issues

Intel MKL greater than 19.0.5: performance issues on AMD chips

Recent versions of MKL do not use the AVX2 kernels for certain operations on non-intel chips, such as the AMD Rome on our HPCF. The consequence is a significant drop in performance.