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Knights Landing Edition
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Intel Xeon Phi
Processor High
Performance
Programming
Knights Landing Edition
By
Jim Jeffers
James Reinders
Avinash Sodani
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# 2016 James Reinders, Jim Jeffers, and Avinash Sodani. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Cover art: Knights Landing Die Photo, courtesy of Intel Corporation. Superimposed over the die is
an ENZO cosmology simulation of the intergalactic “cosmic web” of gravitational filaments that link
galaxies, define the structure of the universe, and indicate dark matter. Simulation by Brian O’Shea of
Michigan State University. Visualization generated on Knights Landing processor using VisIt open
source application by Jefferson Amstutz, Intel Corporation, with Anne Bowen and Dave Semeraro from
the Texas Advanced Computing Center.
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