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CPU targets

The following table lists the CPU microarchitectures that are natively supported by the different versions of the EESSI repository.

CPU target Description Supported in EESSI version
aarch64/generic fallback for Arm 64-bit CPUs (like Raspberri Pi, etc.) 2023.06 2025.06
aarch64/a64fx Fujitsu A64FX 2023.06 2025.06
aarch64/neoverse_n1 AWS Graviton 2, Ampere Altra, ... 2023.06 2025.06
aarch64/neoverse_v1 AWS Graviton 3 2023.06 2025.06
aarch64/nvidia/grace NVIDIA Grace 2023.06 2025.06
x86_64/generic fallback for older Intel + AMD CPUs (like Intel Sandy Bridge, ...) 2023.06 2025.06
x86_64/amd/zen2 AMD Rome 2023.06 2025.06
x86_64/amd/zen3 AMD Milan, Milan-X 2023.06 2025.06
x86_64/amd/zen4 AMD Genoa, Genoa-X, Bergamo, Siena 2023.06 2025.06
x86_64/amd/zen5 AMD Turin 2025.06
x86_64/intel/haswell Intel Haswell, Broadwell 2023.06 2025.06
x86_64/intel/skylake_avx512 Intel Skylake 2023.06 2025.06
x86_64/intel/cascadelake Intel Cascade Lake, Cooper Lake 2023.06 2025.06
x86_64/intel/icelake Intel Ice Lake 2023.06 2025.06
x86_64/intel/sapphirerapids Intel Sapphire Rapids, Emerald Rapids 2023.06 2025.06

The names of these CPU targets correspond to the names used by archspec.

What does native support mean?

Native support means that the software has been built on, and has been optimized for, this specific CPU type. That does not mean that CPUs that are not listed here are not supported: EESSI's CPU autodetection scripts will simply fall back to the stack of the best matching CPU type in terms of supported CPU instructions. For instance, on an Intel Broadwell CPU you will get the stack optimized for Intel Haswell, and for an AMD Zen 5 CPU you would get the Zen 4 stack in EESSI 2023.06.