KNL Access and Reporting of KNL Results

Please check out how to get access to KNLs

Software Developer Platforms available for purchase - see on the resources page of ixpug.org. Click here for a 1-page summary.
Limited time on a remote KNL. Please complete the form by clicking here. Compute time of 4 hours or less, and work for submissions to ISC will be given higher priority. Once an access decision is made, you'll be notified by email. You will need an NDA in place to be granted access.

We'll help you get your results data reviewed by Intel for any public release before ISC. You may collect and share KNL data at ISC. You are allowed to submit NDA data to EasyChair without additional review.

TACC KNL Tutorial

Date: June 19, 2016

Time: 8:00am – 12:00pm

Location: Frankfurt Hotel Marriott (Hamburger Allee 2 Frankfurt Hessen 60486 Germany)

Registration: See https://portal.tacc.utexas.edu/training/#/session/27

The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at the University of Texas at Austin, in partnership with Intel Corporation, is proud to announce a special tutorial event as part of the Intel eXtreme Performance Users Group (IXPUG) Meeting at ISC16 in Frankfurt, Germany. This event will provide hands-on experience on the latest Intel product, the second generation Intel Xeon Phi, also known as Knights Landing (KNL). Attendees to this half-day event will be some of the first researchers in the world to have access to the KNL platform.

Hands-on exercises will be executed on the Stampede system at TACC. Stampede has been updated with KNL processors, which will be made available to the general public later this year.

This tutorial will focus on the use of reports and directives to improve vectorization and the implementation of proper memory access, and showcase new Intel VTune Amplifier XE capabilities that allow for in-depth memory access analysis and hybrid code profiling.

The first forty registered attendees through the door will also receive a copy of the new book: Intel® Xeon Phi Processor High Performance Programming, Knights Landing Edition, by Jim Jeffers, James Reinders, and Avinash Sodani.

**NOTE: This training is being offered at the Frankfurt Marriott, rather than at the ISC Conference Location.**

IXPUG Birds of a Feather:
BOF 13: Gearing Up Application Performance for Intel Xeon Phi (KNL) Supercomputers

Location: Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Date: Wednesday, June 22, 2016, 8:30-9:30 am (Frankfurt time)
Venue: Substanz 1+2, Forum

Submissions

Please start making submissions now. Reviewers will start reviewing by May 16. Late submissions will be considered. Talk selection on June 3rd.
Submission URL: EasyChair IXPUG Workshop ISC16. Please select BoF only, in the Topics selection box.
Presentation template: IXPUG PowerPoint template - we've found that those who include content in this template have the smoothest reviews

KNL Demo Hardware

During this BOF 13 and the following BOF 14, KNL demo hardware is shown inside the room to present performance for selected benchmark cases.

Agenda

		Topic	Presentation
08:30	08:35	Opening	Welcome (Richard Gerber, President of IXPUG)
08:35	08:40	Welcome	Overview Intel Xeon Phi - Knights Landing (Avinash Sodani, Intel Xeon Phi KNL Architect)
08:40	08:50	IXPUG WGs	IXPUG Working Discussion (M. Lysaght, ICHEC)
08:50	08:55	IXPUG WGs	The Vectorization Working Group (see part 2) (G. Zitzlsberger, Intel)
08:55	09:10	Lightning Talks	Particle-in-Cell Plasma Simulation on KNC & First Results on KNL (I. Meyerov, Univ. Nizhni Novgorod)
			Improving the performance of a Gadget kernel on many-core systems – from KNC to KNL (L. Iapichino, F. Baruffa, LRZ)
			Modernisation of the AVBP code for KNL. Performance and optimisation tips using Intel advisor (G. Staffelbach, CERFACS)
09:10	09:30	Tools Talks & Discussion	Profiling Tools for KNL (C. Rosales-Fernandez, A. Gómez-Iglesias, TACC)
			Cray Tools for KNL (St. Andersson, Cray)
			Open Discussion (including having Intel & Cray tool/compiler people there)
09:30		Closing	Final Remarks (IXPUG)