November 2014
Intermediate to advanced
600 pages
17h 20m
English
Michael Hebenstreit Intel Corporation, USA
It is important to understand whether users want to use coprocessors as offload devices or as a separate compute node. In the latter case a user must be able to ssh from any other node in the cluster directly to a coprocessor, and find an environment (like cluster file system) similar or identical to a standard node. The Xeon Phi can be configured so that a user can run MPI on the coprocessors, only on the host processor (e.g. using the coprocessor in offload mode), or a mix of native coprocessor and/or host processor MPI codes.
The cluster model allows it very easily to port an MPI application and get it to run. ...
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