The Intel® Many Integrated Core Architecture

In recent years, an observable trend in High Performance Computing (HPC) architectures has been the inclusion of accelerators, such as GPUs and field programmable arrays (FPGAs), to improve the performance of scientific applications. To rise to this challenge Intel announced the Intel® Many Integrated Core Architecture (Intel® MIC Architecture). In contrast with other accelerated platforms, the Intel MIC Architecture is a general purpose, manycore coprocessor that improves the programmability of such devices by supporting the well-known shared-memory execution model that is the base of most nodes in HPC machines. In this presentation, we will introduce key properties of the Intel MIC Architecture and we will also cover programming models for parallelization and vectorization of applications targeting this architecture.