Intel® Xeon Phi™ Coprocessor Developer's Quick Start Guide

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  • Intel® MPSS 2.1 Users: Download Intel® Xeon Phi™ Coprocessor Developer's Quick Start Guide [PDF 763KB]
  • Intel® MPSS 3.x Users: Download Intel® Xeon Phi™ Coprocessor Developer's Quick Start Guide for MPSS 3.4  [PDF 786KB]

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Introduction

This document will help you get started writing code and running applications on a system (host) that includes the Intel® Xeon Phi™ Coprocessor based on the Intel® Many Integrated Core Architecture (Intel® MIC Architecture). It describes the available tools and includes simple examples to show how to get C/C++ and Fortran-based programs up and running. For now, the developer will have to cut/paste the examples provided in the document to their system.

This document is available at http://software.intel.com/mic-developer under the"Overview"tab.

Goals

This document does:

1. Walk you through the Intel® Manycore Platform Software Stack (Intel® MPSS) installation.
2. Introduce the build environment for software enabled to run on Intel® Xeon Phi™ Coprocessor .
3. Give an example of how to write code for Intel® Xeon Phi™ Coprocessor and build using Intel® Composer XE 2015.
4. Demonstrate the use of Intel libraries like the Intel® Math Kernel Library (Intel® MKL).
5. Point you to information on how to debug and profile programs running on an Intel® Xeon Phi™ Coprocessor .
6. Share some best known methods (BKMs) developed by users at Intel.

This document does not:

1. Cover each tool in detail. Please refer to the user guides for the individual tools.
2. Provide in-depth training.

Summary of recent changes:

• September 26, 2014: Intel(R) Xeon Phi(TM) Coprocessor Developer's Quick Start for Windows* (version 1.4) 
• November 17, 2014: Intel(R) Xeon Phi(TM) Coprocessor Developer's Quick Start for Linux* (version 1.8)