Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessors

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Overview

Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors have been designed by Intel Corporation as a supplement to the Intel Xeon processor family. These computing accelerators feature the MIC (Many Integrated Core) architecture, which enables fast and energy-efficient execution of High Performance Computing (HPC) applications utilizing massive thread parallelism, vector arithmetics and streamlined memory access. The term “Many Integrated Core” serves to distinguish the Intel Xeon Phi product family from the “Multi-Core” family of Intel Xeon processors.

An Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor

That processor family uses the Intel Hyper-Threading Technology (Intel HT Technology), which was developed by Intel in order to improve the performance of IA-32 processors when executing multi-threaded operating system and application code or single-threaded applications under multi-tasking environments. The technology enables a single physical processor to execute two or more separate code streams (threads) concurrently using shared execution resources.


Intel Xeon Processor E5-2600v2 Architecture

Hardware Components

Intel Xeon Processor

There are 2 Intel Xeon Processors installed in the PDS Lab, each of them has the following configuration:

Model Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 v2 @ 2.60GHz
CPU MHZ 1200.000
CPU cores per Processor 8
Thread(s) per core 2
Total of threads per processor 16
Host physical memory 65933 MB
Architecture x86_64
CPU op-mode(s) 32-bit, 64-bit
Byte order Little Endian
Host OS Linux
OS version 2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64
L1 dcache 32 KB
L1 icache 32 KB
L2 cache 256 KB
L3 cache 20480 KB
Cache alignment 64
Address sizes 46 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
NUMA node(s) 2
NUMA node0 CPU(s) 0-7, 16-23
NUMA node1 CPU(s) 8-15, 24-31
OS CentOS Linux release 7.2.151 (64bits)
Management IPMI 2.0 & KVM with Dedicated LAN - Integrated

Xeon Phi Coprocessor

There are two Intel Xeon PHI Co-processors installed in the PDS Lab. These two co-processors are called mic0 and mic1, and each of them has the following configuration:

Device No: 0, Device Name: mic0
Device Series Intel(R) Xeon Phi(TM) coprocessor 7120P
Number of cores 61
Threads per core (Hyper Threads) 4
Total of threads 244
Frequency 57 to 61 cores at ≈1 GHz
uOS Version 2.6.38.8 + mpss3.3

Device No: 1, Device Name: mic1
Device series: Intel(R) Xeon Phi(TM) coprocessor 7120P
Number of cores: 61
Threads per core (Hyper Threads) 4
Total of threads 244
Frequency 57 to 61 cores at ≈1 GHz
uOS Version 2.6.38.8 + mpss3.3

GDDR
GDDR Vendor Samsung
GDDR Version 0x6
GDDR Density 4096 Mb
GDDR Size 15872 MB
GDDR Technology GDDR5
GDDR Speed 5.5 GT/s
GDDR Frequency 2750000 kHz
GDDR Voltage 15010000 uV