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Civil-Comp Proceedings
ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 111
PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PARALLEL, DISTRIBUTED, GRID AND CLOUD COMPUTING FOR ENGINEERING
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Comparison of Intel Xeon Phi Offload Runtimes

L. Maly1,2, J. Zapletal1,2, M. Merta1, L. Riha1 and V. Vondrak1,2

1IT4Innovations, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
2 Department of Applied Mathematics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
L. Maly, J. Zapletal, M. Merta, L. Riha, V. Vondrak, "Comparison of Intel Xeon Phi Offload Runtimes", in , (Editors), "Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, Grid and Cloud Computing for Engineering", Civil-Comp Press, Stirlingshire, UK, Paper 1, 2017. doi:10.4203/ccp.111.1
Keywords: Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor, offload, Hetero Stream Library, domain decomposition, HTFETI.

Summary
The Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessors are representatives of Intel’s Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture and represent one of the possibilities how to accelerate scientific or engineering codes. There are several runtimes enabling a computation to be offloaded to the coprocessor. In this paper we compare the Intel Language Extension for Offload (LEO) and several approaches utilizing the Hetero Streams Library (hStreams). As a benchmark we use the dense matrix-vector multiplication since it is a crucial part of our method for acceleration of the HTFETI domain decomposition solver Espreso. We provide an overview of the approaches and present results of numerical experiments.

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