Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor High Performance Programming (Paperback)

Authors Jim Jeffers and James Reinders spent two years helping educate customers about the prototype and pre-production hardware before Intel introduced the first Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor. They have distilled their own experiences coupled with insights from many expert customers, Intel Field Engineers, Application Engineers and Technical Consulting Engineers, to create this authoritative first book on the essentials of programming for this new architecture and these new products.

This book is useful even before you ever touch a system with an Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor. To ensure that your applications run at maximum efficiency, the authors emphasize key techniques for programming any modern parallel computing system whether based on Intel Xeon processors, Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors, or other high performance microprocessors. Applying these techniques will generally increase your program performance on any system, and better prepare you for Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors and the Intel MIC architecture.

• A practical guide to the essentials of the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor
• Presents best practices for portable, high-performance computing and a familiar and proven threaded, scalar-vector programming model
• Includes simple but informative code examples that explain the unique aspects of this new highly parallel and high performance computational product
• Covers wide vectors, many cores, many threads and high bandwidth cache/memory architecture

作者Jim Jeffers和James Reinders在Intel推出第一款Intel Xeon Phi協處理器之前，花了兩年時間幫助客戶了解原型和預生產硬體。他們將自己的經驗與許多專家客戶、Intel現場工程師、應用工程師和技術諮詢工程師的見解相結合，創作了這本權威的第一本關於這種新架構和新產品的編程基礎的書籍。

即使在您接觸到搭載Intel Xeon Phi協處理器的系統之前，這本書也非常有用。為了確保您的應用程式運行效率最大化，作者強調了在任何基於Intel Xeon處理器、Intel Xeon Phi協處理器或其他高性能微處理器的現代並行計算系統上編程的關鍵技巧。應用這些技巧通常會提高您在任何系統上的程式效能，並更好地為Intel Xeon Phi協處理器和Intel MIC架構做準備。

這本書是關於Intel Xeon Phi協處理器基本知識的實用指南，提供了可攜式高性能計算和熟悉且經過驗證的線程化、標量-向量編程模型的最佳實踐。書中還包含了簡單但有信息量的代碼示例，解釋了這種新的高度並行和高性能計算產品的獨特方面。內容涵蓋了寬向量、多核心、多線程和高帶寬緩存/內存架構。