LSAIT offers Introduction to the Intel Xeon Phi presentation — Dec. 20

On Friday December 20th from 10:00 – 11:30 a.m. in room 2001 LSA Building, Seth Meyer from the LSA IT Advocacy and Research Support team will present on “Introduction to the Intel Xeon Phi”. This training is aimed at researchers and IT support staff who want to find out what the Intel Xeon Phi (aka Intel MIC) Coprocessor is, what sorts of problems it helps with, and what sorts of users can benefit by either having one in their desktop system or using one on a cluster or in the cloud. This presentation is free, open to the public, and there is no registration. Agenda:

• Overview of the technology
  • What is the Xeon Phi / Intel MIC
• Who will benefit
  • What problem sets are appropriate
• Examples
  • Native code
  • Offload
•  Q&A

For more information, contact lsa-it-community-training@umich.edu.