Published March 30, 2014 | Version v1
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Xeon Phi Performance for HPC-based Computational Mechanics Codes

Creators

  • 1. Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain; IIIA / CSIC, Spain
  • 1. Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain

Description

In this paper we describe different applications we have ported to Intel Xeon Phi architectures, analyzing their
performance. The applications cover a wide range. Alya, which is an HPC-based multi-physics code for parallel
computers capable of solving coupled engineering problems in non-structured meshes. Waris, which is a simulation
code for Cartesian meshes, that uses efficiently well-ordered data and well-balanced parallel threads. The last analysis
is performed for a cornerstone of several simulation codes, a Cholesky decomposition method. The results are very
promising, showing the great flexibility and power of Xeon Phi architectures.

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Funding

PRACE-1IP – PRACE - First Implementation Phase Project 261557
European Commission