Chapter 10

Linux on the Coprocessor

It’s just Linux. The very first users of the Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessor would always ask us general or even very specific “how to” questions about understanding how to manage, or port, or run code on the coprocessor assuming it differed from what they’d consider “normal.” We were happy to surprise them. Most often, our answer would simply be “It’s just Linux!” Much of why we could answer like that for application developers was explained in Chapters 8 and 9 on the hardware and software architecture of the coprocessor. We continue that in this chapter while looking at the installation and management aspects for a system.

In this chapter, we focus more on knowledge useful to the administration of a system that ...

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