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

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

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

DESCRIPTION
     fftwf-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 trans-
     forms 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/wisdomf by default.  fftwf-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:

			    fftwf-wisdom -v -c -o wisdomf

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

     The fftwf-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/wisdomf already exists, then
     fftwf-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,  fftwf-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/wisdomf
	    (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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