The Intel Compilers must be setup using a script to install important libraries paths and executable paths.

Bash Shell

source /usr/local/profile.d/iccvars.sh

Tcsh Shell

source /usr/local/profile.d/iccvars.csh

After setup, icc is the intel c-compiler and icpc is the intel c++ compiler.

Some Useful Compiler Options

• To generate highly optimized code, try compiling with "-03" or  "-fast" flags.
• Use  "-w" to disable all warnings, "-Wall" to enable all warnings.
• "-openmp" to generate code based on OpenMP directives
• "-static" prevents linking with shared libraries (everything is statically linked)
• setup the intel compilers and issue icc --help to see the full list of options.