I have updated from the trunk and compiled on my Altix.  Bin/manta shows me the nice shiny board and checkerboard ground plane, but performance is not what it is in the itanium branch.  On a machine with 1.6 GHz processors, “bin/manta” gives me 1.4 fps on the itanium branch and 0.99 fps on the main trunk.  “bin/manta –np 4” gives me 5.5 fps on the itanium branch and 1.6 fps on the main trunk.

I think both are being compiled with “Release” flags (-O3 –IPO –g).

            Rocky