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Measuring Memory Bandwidth on the Intel® Xeon Phi™ Coprocessor
The memory bandwidth of an application is an important metric to have at your fingertips when optimizing your application. One can measure the memory bandwidth of an application running on the Intel...
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Meshcentral.com - New Direct Routing
Meshcentral.com is of course a cloud service, but it can also be run as an Intranet service. I do exactly that within Intel and so, I get a bunch of users that give me feedback about the Intranet...
View ArticleMeshcentral.com - Intel AMT Remote Commands
I am very happy to announce that Meshcentral.com now supports Intel AMT power actions directly from the web site. So, if you happen to be managing Intel AMT computers with Meshcentral.com, ...
View ArticleSpeeding Up Your Cloud Environment On Intel® Architecture
In my previous blog, I discussed “Ways to Speeding up Your Cloud Environment…”, I will continue with this thread by introducing the topic of Software Defined Networks (SDN ...
View ArticleIntel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessor Power Management Part 1: P-States, Reducing...
Right up front, I am going to tell you that P-states are irrelevant, meaning they will not impact the performance of your HPC application. Nevertheless, they are important to your application in a...
View ArticleMeshcentral.com - New Mesh Graph
I am glad to annonce a new Mesh graph feature into Meshcentral.com. When you install mesh agents in computers, the agents form a mesh, discovering and monitoring each other. Well, it's not ...
View ArticleMeshcentral.com - Intel AMT hardware KVM multi-display support
Every few weeks, I try to add more Intel AMT support in Meshcentral.com. This time around, I added multi-display support for Intel AMT on the hardware KVM viewer. So, when you connect to Intel AMT KVM...
View ArticleMeasuring Memory Bandwidth on the Intel® Xeon Phi™ Coprocessor
The memory bandwidth of an application is an important metric to have at your fingertips when optimizing your application. One can measure the memory bandwidth of an application running on the Intel...
View ArticleMeshcentral.com - New Direct Routing
Meshcentral.com is of course a cloud service, but it can also be run as an Intranet service. I do exactly that within Intel and so, I get a bunch of users that give me feedback about the ...
View ArticleDisabling instruction cache snooping on the Intel® Xeon Phi™ Coprocessor
Warning: The following documents a control flag users may experiment with; however, it's not an official feature supported by the Intel® Xeon Phi™ Coprocessor. What is instruction cache...
View ArticleFive Tutorial Videos - Intel® VTune™ Amplifier XE RE: Intel® Xeon Phi™...
Three more videos were added to the collection on http://software.intel.com/en-us/mic-developerVTune™ ...
View ArticleWeb Resources about Intel® Transactional Synchronization Extensions
In this blog I list useful technical resources related to Intel® Transactional Synchronization Extensions (Intel TSX). I will try to keep the list up-to-date as new material becomes available....
View ArticleMonitoring Intel® Transactional Synchronization Extensions with Intel® PCM
After applying a new technology (a new processor, a hardware accelerator, a new instruction, etc) besides measuring the immediate performance delta one requires a method to verify that this technology...
View ArticleFinding the right fit for your application on Intel® Xeon and Intel® Xeon...
Not all applications are created equal. Some are chomping at the bit to harvest as much parallelism as a target platform can provide. Those may be good candidates for running on an Intel® Xeon Phi™...
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Title: “Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessor Power Management Part 2b: Package...
TERMINOLOGY NOTE:Upon reading the SDG (Intel® Xeon Phi™ Coprocessor Software Developer’s Guide), you’ll find a variety of confusing names and acronyms. Here’s my decoder ring:Package Auto C3: also...
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Meshcentral.com - New Mesh Agent v1.67
Two days ago I started updating the Windows x86 Mesh Agent with the latest v1.67 version. In this latest agent, the major change is the new use of the Windows Crypto API. In the past, I would use...
View ArticleEstimate the penalty of Cache Miss more accurate on Ivy-bridge?
Most of time the user will reference Tuning Guides and Performance Analysis Papers for different Intel® Core™ Generation processors, to optimize their applications.Usually estimating Cache Miss penalty...
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Meshcentral.com - News update
Hi everyone. First, for people in the US, happy long weekend! I just wanted to give an update on what is going on with Meshcentral.com. Here is a lot of interest in the technology and so, I have been...
View ArticleTransparent Huge Pages on Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessors
Transparent Huge PagesAs of Gold Update 1, the Intel® Many Integrated Core Platform Software Stack (MPSS) Operating System has been updated to Linux kernel version 2.6.38, which adds support of the...
View ArticleHow to use memory bandwidth analysis on old processors?
Intel(R) VTune(TM) Amplifier XE supports memory bandwidth analysis on recent Sandbridge, Ivybridge, and Haswell processors. However if the user worked on some old processors, for example – Nehalem,...
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