This is the first article in a series of articles about High Performance Computing with the Intel Xeon Phi. The Intel Xeon Phi is the first commercial product of Intel to incorporate the Many Integrated Core architecture. In this article I will present the basics of the Xeon Phi architecture, the programming models and what we can do to measure the performance in cycles for micro benchmarks.

Answers for the questions raised during the April session of our Introduction to High Performance Application Development for Intel® Xeon® & Intel® Xeon Phi™ processors class have been assembled.  There were some duplicates and other questions we couldn't decipher, either because of the wording or because of implied context that was not spelled out.  We tried to address the rest, which appear below:

This is the second article in a series on the Cilk Screen Race Detector. The previous article, An Introduction to the Cilk Screen Race Detector, described:

    Intel C++ compiler is one of the components in Intel system studio. After you installed the Intel system studio on an Intel64 system, when you invoke the Intel compiler for a compilation, you may have the following error:
       bash: /opt/intel/system_studio_2013.0.016/bin/intel64/icc: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: bad ELF interpreter: No such file or directory
Or you may encounter the following error:
       icc: error while loading shared libraries: libgcc_s.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory