diff --git a/spgemm/mkl_shmem/README.md b/spgemm/mkl_shmem/README.md
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--- a/spgemm/mkl_shmem/README.md
+++ b/spgemm/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