Introduction to the Intel® Xeon Phi™ Coprocessor

This tutorial introduces the basic hardware and software architecture of the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor, describing their general features, and provides a first view of the various programming models that support High Performance Computing on hosts equipped with the coprocessor, including offloading selected code to the coprocessor, Virtual Shared Memory, and parallel programming using OpenMP*, Intel Cilk Plus, and Intel Threading Building Blocks. Useful Links: Intel® Developer Zone for Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessors: http://software.intel.com/mic-developer