diff --git a/spmv/mkl_shmem/README.md b/spmv/mkl_shmem/README.md
index 877c818d0a22c35cff0ecb2a24b15c3c31b83c22..7fbdfa89fe95f0d54c0a963b3294607ffa6bcd05 100644
--- a/spmv/mkl_shmem/README.md
+++ b/spmv/mkl_shmem/README.md
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ Parallelism is provided by MKL.
 new starts
 
 - 10. Instructions on how to compile the code
-cmake .
+cc=icc cmake .
 make
 
 - 11. Instructions on how to run the code