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We review our work done to optimize the staggered conjugate gradient (CG) algorithm in the MILC code for use with the Intel Knights Landing (KNL) architecture. KNL is the second gener- ation Intel Xeon Phi processor. It is capable of…

Recently, we have benchmarked and tuned the MILC code on a number of architectures including Intel Itanium and Pentium IV (PIV), dual-CPU Athlon, and the latest Compaq Alpha nodes. Results will be presented for many of these, and we shall…

A trend in high performance computers that is becoming increasingly popular is the use of symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) rather than the older paradigm of MPP. MPI codes that ran and scaled well on MPP machines can often be run on an SMP…

Intel Xeon Phi many-integrated-core (MIC) architectures usher in a new era of terascale integration. Among emerging killer applications, parallel graph processing has been a critical technique to analyze connected data. In this paper, we…

The paper demonstrates the optimization of the execution environment of a hybrid OpenMP+MPI computational fluid dynamics code (shallow water equation solver) on a cluster enabled with Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors. The discussion includes:…

We carry out a comparative performance study of multi-core CPUs, GPUs and Intel Xeon Phi (Many Integrated Core - MIC) with a microscopy image analysis application. We experimentally evaluate the performance of computing devices on core…

We present our experience with the modernization on the GR-MHD code BHAC, aimed at improving its novel hybrid (MPI+OpenMP) parallelization scheme. In doing so, we showcase the use of performance profiling tools usable on x86 (Intel-based)…

Manycores are consolidating in HPC community as a way of improving performance while keeping power efficiency. Knights Landing is the recently released second generation of Intel Xeon Phi architecture. While optimizing applications on CPUs,…

With the rapidly growing demand for computing power new accelerator based architectures have entered the world of high performance computing since around 5 years. In particular GPGPUs have recently become very popular, however programming…

We investigate and characterize the performance of an important class of operations on GPUs and Many Integrated Core (MIC) architectures. Our work is motivated by applications that analyze low-dimensional spatial datasets captured by high…

We evaluate the second-generation Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor based on the Intel Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture, aka the Knights Landing or KNL, for simulating neutrino oscillations in (core-collapse) supernovae. For this purpose we…

We discuss practical methods to ensure near wirespeed performance from clusters with either one or two Intel(R) Omni-Path host fabric interfaces (HFI) per node, and Intel(R) Xeon Phi(TM) 72xx (Knight's Landing) processors, and using the…

Since the development of the Beowulf project to build a parallel computer from commodity PC components, there have been many such clusters built. The MILC QCD code has been run on a variety of clusters and supercomputers. Key design…

Knights Landing (KNL) is the code name for the second-generation Intel Xeon Phi product family. KNL has generated significant interest in the data analysis and machine learning communities because its new many-core architecture targets both…

The introduction of Intel(R) Xeon Phi(TM) coprocessors opened up new possibilities in development of highly parallel applications. The familiarity and flexibility of the architecture together with compiler support integrated into the Intel…

In this paper we explore the performance of Intel Xeon MAX CPU Series, representing the most significant new variation upon the classical CPU architecture since the Intel Xeon Phi Processor. Given the availability of a large on-package…

The simplex algorithm has been successfully used for many years in solving linear programming (LP) problems. Due to the intensive computations required (especially for the solution of large LP problems), parallel approaches have also…

Today, one of the main challenges for high-performance computing systems is to improve their performance by keeping energy consumption at acceptable levels. In this context, a consolidated strategy consists of using accelerators such as…

The Knights Landing (KNL) is the codename for the latest generation of Intel processors based on Intel Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture. It relies on massive thread and data parallelism, and fast on-chip memory. This processor…

With multi-core processors a ubiquitous building block of modern supercomputers, it is now past time to enable applications to embrace these developments in processor design. To achieve exascale performance, applications will need ways of…