Tag Archives: coprocessor

PCI-Express Root Complex Confusion?

I’ve had several customers comment to me that it’s difficult to find someone that can speak with them intelligently about PCI-E root complex questions. And yet, it’s of vital importance when considering multi-CPU systems that have various PCI-Express devices (most … Continue reading

Intel Xeon Phi 7120P “Knights Corner” x86 Coprocessor Up Close

Currently, Intel’s premier Xeon Phi product is the 7120P. It offers the most cores, the fastest clock speed, the most memory and the greatest performance. We’ve got these cards running in our lab – here’s a photo: The Phi 7120 … Continue reading

MicInfo: Intel Xeon Phi 5110P and 3120A Up Close

Earlier this year, we discussed the new Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessors at a high level. I wanted to provide more details on the internals of these coprocessors. For now, it’s best if Linux is your operating system of choice when … Continue reading

Parallel Code: Maximizing your Performance Potential

No matter what the purpose of your application is, one thing is certain. You want to get the most bang for your buck. You see research papers being published and presented making claims of tremendous speed increases by running algorithms … Continue reading

Intel Xeon Phi Delivers New Roads to Increased HPC Performance

The Intel® Xeon® Phi™ is the first x86-based accelerator for heterogeneous HPC environments. A parallel coprocessor with 60 x86 compute cores, Xeon Phi 5110P delivers over 1 TFLOPS of double precision floating point performance. Based upon the Many Integrated Core … Continue reading

Software Support for Intel® Xeon Phi™ Coprocessors

With Intel’s release of the Xeon Phi coprocessor cards, HPC users must ask themselves how much performance they need and how they plan to achieve it. Will resources be devoted towards fast new hardware, re-writing/optimizing software or some balance of … Continue reading