Dear Chris,
You are switching both NONMEM versions and compiler versions and operating =
system versions. I'd be amazed if you found identical results on all your m=
odels. Only the very simple or very well defined ones will not move around,=
but for any real-life model, numerical outcome will depend on all these fa=
ctors plus additional influences like the operating system itself (i.e. Lin=
ux, Windows, OSX), running 32 or 64 bit versions of OS and/or software, th=
e whole multitude of compiler switches, running NONMEM with or without MPI,=
and finally hardware differences like Intel or AMD processors.
To get back to your question: I'd be surprised if the Redhat version would =
affect your results but changing the Intel compiler version almost certainl=
y will (unless you've been particularly fortunate with your choice of compi=
ler switches) and so will changing NONMEM version.
Good luck,
Rik Schoemaker, PhD
Life Science Services - Exprimo
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From: owner-nmusers
Behalf Of Chris Franklin
Sent: 05 August 2013 17:16
To: nmusers
Subject: [NMusers] Behavioural/Result differences for NONMEM version 5.
Hi,
I know we all predominantly use NONMEM versions after NONMEM version 5. But=
we retain old versions to reproduce or work on historic activities.
Anyway the question/issue:
We are upgrading our infrastructure from RedHat 4 to RedHat 5 and Intel com=
piler from 10 to 12.
We now have models that worked historically but we get anomalous behaviour=
varying from differences in theta and eta estimates in the 3rd significant=
digit up to runs that hang during the convergence steps.
Has anyone else experienced these?
Note: we have been informed of two compiler warnings during the installatio=
n phase:
ifort: command line remark #10010: option '-Vaxlib' is deprecated and will =
be removed in a future release. See '-help deprecated'
ifort: command line remark #10279: option '-xW' is deprecated and will be r=
emoved in a future release. See '-help deprecated'
Your feedback/advice on this is most welcome.
Regards,
Chris Franklin
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