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FFTW-WISDOM(1)			      fftw			  FFTW-WISDOM(1)

NAME
     fftw-wisdom - create wisdom (pre-optimized FFTs)

SYNOPSIS
     fftw-wisdom [OPTION]... [SIZE]...

DESCRIPTION
     fftw-wisdom is a utility to generate FFTW wisdom files, which contain saved
     information  about how to optimally compute (Fourier) transforms of various
     sizes.  FFTW is a free library to compute discrete  Fourier  transforms  in
     one  or  more dimensions, for arbitrary sizes, and of both real and complex
     data, among other related operations.  More  information  on  FFTW  can  be
     found at the FFTW home page: http://www.fftw.org

     Programs  using  FFTW can be written to load wisdom from an arbitrary file,
     string, or other source.  Moreover, it is likely that many FFTW-using  pro-
     grams  will  load	the  system  wisdom  file,  which  is stored in /usr/lo-
     cal/etc/fftw/wisdom by default.  fftw-wisdom can be used to create  or  add
     to  such  wisdom  files.  In its most typical usage, the wisdom file can be
     created to pre-plan a canonical set of sizes (see below) via:

			     fftw-wisdom -v -c -o wisdom

     (this will take many hours, which can be limited by the -t option) and  the
     output  wisdom file can then be copied (as root) to /usr/local/etc/fftw/ or
     whatever.

     The fftw-wisdom program normally writes the  wisdom  directly  to	standard
     output, but this can be changed via the -o option, as in the example above.

     If  the  system wisdom file /usr/local/etc/fftw/wisdom already exists, then
     fftw-wisdom reads this existing wisdom (unless the -n option is  specified)
     and outputs both the old wisdom and any newly created wisdom.  In this way,
     it can be used to add new transform sizes to the existing system wisdom (or
     other wisdom file, with the -w option).

SPECIFYING SIZES
     Although  a  canonical  set of sizes to optimize is specified by the -c op-
     tion, the user can also specify zero or more non-canonical transform  sizes
     and  types  to optimize, via the SIZE arguments following the option flags.
     Alternatively, the sizes to  optimize  can  be  read  from  standard  input
     (whitespace-separated), if a SIZE argument of "-" is supplied.

     Sizes are specified by the syntax:

			<type><inplace><direction><geometry>

     <type>  is  either 'c' (complex), 'r' (real, r2c/c2r), or 'k' (r2r, per-di-
     mension kinds, specified in the geometry, below).

     <inplace> is either 'i' (in place) or 'o' (out of place).

     <direction> is either 'f' (forward) or  'b'  (backward).	The  <direction>
     should  be omitted for 'k' transforms, where it is specified via the geome-
     try instead.

     <geometry> is the size and dimensionality of the transform, where different
     dimensions are separated by 'x' (e.g. '16x32' for a two-dimensional  16  by
     32  transform).   In the case of 'k' transforms, the size of each dimension
     is   followed   by   a   "type"   string,	 which	  can	 be    one    of
     f/b/h/e00/e01/e10/e11/o00/o01/o10/o11				     for
     R2HC/HC2R/DHT/REDFT00/.../RODFT11, respectively, as  defined  in  the  FFTW
     manual.

     For example, 'cif12x13x14' is a three-dimensional 12 by 13 x 14 complex DFT
     operating	in-place.   'rob65536'	is  a one-dimensional size-65536 out-of-
     place complex-to-real (backwards) transform operating on Hermitian-symmetry
     input.  'ki10hx20e01' is a two-dimensional 10 by 20 r2r transform where the
     first dimension is a DHT and the second dimension is an REDFT01 (DCT-III).

OPTIONS
     -h, --help
	    Display help on the command-line options and usage.

     -V, --version
	    Print the version number and copyright information.

     -v, --verbose
	    Verbose output.  (You can specify this multiple times, or  supply  a
	    numeric  argument  greater than 1, to increase the verbosity level.)
	    Note that the verbose output will be mixed with  the  wisdom  output
	    (making  it  impossible to import), unless you write the wisdom to a
	    file via the -o option.

     -c, --canonical
	    Optimize/pre-plan a canonical set of sizes: all powers  of	two  and
	    ten  up  to 2^20 (1048576), including both real and complex, forward
	    and backwards, in-place and out-of-place transforms.  Also	includes
	    two- and three-dimensional transforms of equal-size dimensions (e.g.
	    16x16x16).

     -t hours, --time-limit=hours
	    Stop  after  a time of hours (hours) has elapsed, outputting accumu-
	    lated wisdom.  (The problems are  planned  in  increasing  order  of
	    size.)  Defaults to 0, indicating no time limit.

     -o file, --output-file=file
	    Send  wisdom  output to file rather than to standard output (the de-
	    fault).

     -m, --measure; -e, --estimate; -x, --exhaustive
	    Normally, fftw-wisdom creates plans in FFTW_PATIENT mode,  but  with
	    these  options  you  can instead use FFTW_MEASURE, FFTW_ESTIMATE, or
	    FFTW_EXHAUSTIVE modes, respectively, as described in more detail  by
	    the FFTW manual.

	    Note  that	wisdom is tagged with the planning patience level, and a
	    single file can mix different levels of wisdom (e.g. you can  mostly
	    use  the  patient  default, but plan a few sizes that you especially
	    care about in --exhaustive mode).

     -n, --no-system-wisdom
	    Do not import  the	system	wisdom	from  /usr/local/etc/fftw/wisdom
	    (which is normally read by default).

     -w file, --wisdom-file=file
	    Import wisdom from file (in addition to the system wisdom, unless -n
	    is	specified).   Multiple	wisdom files can be read via multiple -w
	    options.  If file is "-", then read wisdom from standard input.

     -T N, --threads=N
	    Plan with N threads.  This option is only present if FFTW  was  con-
	    figured with thread support.

BUGS
     Send bug reports to fftw@fftw.org.

AUTHORS
     Written by Steven G. Johnson and Matteo Frigo.

     Copyright (c) 2003, 2007-14 Matteo Frigo
     Copyright (c) 2003, 2007-14 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

SEE ALSO
     fftw-wisdom-to-conf(1)

fftw				 February, 2003 		  FFTW-WISDOM(1)

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