Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor High Performance Programming

Preface

James L. Jeffers and James R. Reinders, Intel Corporation

We have both spent two years helping educate customers about the prototype and preproduction hardware before Intel introduced the first Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessor. During those two years, we have learned much as we endeavored to teach and assist customers in programming for the Intel® Many Integrated Core (Intel® MIC) architecture.

While we offer many tips specific to getting the most from an Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor, we hope that you will find, at the heart of this book, the keys to general parallel programming. These keys are not specifically for Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors but for any general-purpose parallel computer. The challenges of parallel computing are simple to enumerate: ...