Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor High Performance Programming

Authors Jim Jeffers and James Reinders spent two years helping educate customers about the prototype and pre-production hardware before Intel introduced the first Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor. They have distilled their own experiences coupled with insights from many expert customers, Intel Field Engineers, Application Engineers and Technical Consulting Engineers, to create this authoritative first book on the essentials of programming for this new architecture and these new products.

This book is useful even before you ever touch a system with an Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor. To ensure that your applications run at maximum efficiency, the authors emphasize key techniques for programming any modern parallel computing system whether based on Intel Xeon processors, Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors, or other high performance microprocessors. Applying these techniques will generally increase your program performance on any system, and better prepare you for Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors and the Intel MIC architecture.

A practical guide to the essentials of the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor
Presents best practices for portable, high-performance computing and a familiar and proven threaded, scalar-vector programming model
Includes simple but informative code examples that explain the unique aspects of this new highly parallel and high performance computational product
Covers wide vectors, many cores, many threads and high bandwidth cache/memory architecture

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. High Performance examples 3. Benchmarking Apps 4. Real-world Situations 5. Lots of Data (Vectors) 6. Lots of Tasks (not Threads) 7. Processing Parallelism 8. Coprocessor Architecture 9. Coprocessor System Software 10. Linux on the Coprocessor 11. Math Library 12. MPI 13. Profiling 14. Summary

About the author

James Reinders is a senior engineer who joined Intel Corporation in 1989 and has contributed to projects including the world's first TeraFLOP supercomputer (ASCI Red), as well as compilers and architecture work for a number of Intel processors and parallel systems. James has been a driver behind the development of Intel as a major provider of software development products, and serves as their chief software evangelist. James has published numerous articles, contributed to several books and is widely interviewed on parallelism.

Report

"Read this book. Authors Jim Jeffers and James Reinders spent two years helping educate customers about the prototype and pre-production hardware before Intel introduced the first Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor. They have distilled their own experiences coupled with insights from many expert customers, to create this authoritative first book on the essentials of programming for this new architecture and these new products."-- Slashdot.org, May 5, 2013 "The authors.are uniquely experienced in software development for this new silicon. As a result, this book is the definitive programming reference for the 60+ core monster from Intel.highly readable and interlaced with lots of code examples."-- DrDobbs.com, April 2, 2013 "This book belongs on the bookshelf of every HPC professional. Not only does it successfully and accessibly teach us how to use and obtain high performance on the Intel MIC architecture, it is about much more than that. It takes us back to the universal fundamentals of high-performance computing including how to think and reason about the performance of algorithms mapped to modern architectures, and it puts into your hands powerful tools that will be useful for years to come." - Robert J. Harrison , Institute for Advanced Computational Science, Stony Brook University, from the Foreword "The book benefits software engineers, scientific researchers, and high performance and supercomputing developers in need of high-performance computing resources."-- HPCwire.com , March 31, 2013 "The book benefits software engineers, scientific researchers, and high performance and supercomputing developers in need of high-performance computing resources.I got my hands on a preliminary copy of the book back in November at SC12, and I can tell you that Jim and James did a great job."-- Knowledgespeak.com, April 1, 2013

Product details

• Authors: James Jeffers, James Reinders Jeffers, Jim Jeffers, JEFFERS JAMES REINDERS JAMES, James Reinders
• Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.03.2013
• EAN: 9780124104143
• ISBN: 978-0-12-410414-3
• No. of pages: 432
• Series: Morgan Kaufmann
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Hardware