Intel® Xeon Phi™ Coprocessor Architecture and Tools: The Guide for Application Developers

Introduction

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to Intel Xeon Phi architecture and the tools necessary for software engineers and scientists to develop optimized code for systems using Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors. It presents the in-depth knowledge of the Xeon Phi coprocessor architecture that developers need to have to utilize the power of Xeon Phi. My book presupposes prior knowledge of modern cache-based processor architecture, but it begins with a review of the general architectural history, concepts, and nomenclature that I assume my readers bring.

Because this book is intended for practitioners rather than theoreticians, I have filled it with code examples chosen to illuminate features of Xeon Phi architecture in the light ...