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Modern Code for Intel Xeon Phi Processors

December 8, 2016

This series of 45-minute webinars was presented by Colfax International in collaboration with Intel in 2016.   ► Part 1 | ► Part 2 | ► Part 3 1. Strategies for Multi-Threading on Intel Xeon Phi Processors Practical recipes for optimizing performance in multi-threaded computational applications on Intel Xeon Phi processors. Presentation covers common issues with thread parallelism: excessive synchronization, false sharing, insufficient iteration space size, and methods for overcoming these issues: parallel reduction, data padding, strip-mining and loop collapse, and nested parallelism. ► Click to watch recording (45 min) – this webinar aired September 28, 2016 Slides:  Colfax_Modern_Code_Webinar_01.pdf (5 MB) 2. Fine-Tuning Vectorization on Intel Xeon Phi Processors Vectorization of computational applications on Intel Xeon Phi processors. Covers automatic vectorization essentials and the toolkit for advanced tuning of vectorization performance, including compiler directives, data container optimization, and language extensions for expression of data [...]

Performance Optimization for Intel® Xeon Phi™ x200 Product Family: Video

September 29, 2016

Optimization for Intel Xeon Phi Processors x200 Colfax now offers a 2-hour Hands-On Workshop (HOW) video on the best practices for performance optimization for Intel® Xeon Phi™ processor (formerly Knights Landing). Use links below the video to navigate the 10 episodes.     Slides:   HOW-Knights-Landing.pdf (4 MB) Part 1. Meet Intel Xeon Phi processors Purpose of Intel Xeon Phi processors and their organization from the programmer’s point of view. Episode 01. ► Intel architecture: today and tomorrow (14 min) Episode 02. ► Cores in Intel Xeon Phi processors (7 min) Episode 03. ► Vector Instruction Support (14 min) Episode 04. ► High-bandwidth memory (8 min) Episode 05. ► Clustering modes (9 min) Part 2. Hands-on Demonstrations Exercises in performance optimization for Intel Xeon Phi processors. Episode 06. ► Memory bandwidth optimization (19 min) (bonus: ► with memkind) (9 min) Episode 07. ► Vectorization with AVX-512 (13 min) (bonus: ► threading) (9 min) Episode 08. ► Tuning with Intel Math Kernel Library (MKL) (20 min) Episode 09. [...]

HOW Series “Tools”

May 19, 2016

The free Hands-On Webinar (HOW) series explores 3 essential software development tools for Intel architecture: Intel VTune Amplifier, Intel Math Kernel Library (MKL) and Intel Advisor. Each 2-hour webinar comprises a theoretical part and a hands-on component, which is live demonstration of programming and optimization techniques on modern Intel Xeon processors and Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors. The Colfax HOW Tools training series is an integral part of the Intel Modern Code Developer program which supports developers in leveraging application performance in code through a systematic optimization methodology. For similar upcoming trainings, see our Training Calendar. Webinar 1 – Hotspot-guided optimization with Intel VTune Amplifier XE   This session features select topics of performance diagnostics using Intel VTune Amplifier XE. Discussion of general performance optimization challenges. Demonstration of the usage of VTune to identify top hotspots on traditional CPUs and Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors. Illustration of the optimization report functionality of Intel compilers. [...]
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