Intel® Xeon Phi™ Coprocessors

Intel recently launched the Intel® Xeon Phi™ Coprocessor to enhance the performance of the growing category of highly parallel scientific applications. This chapter provides an overview of the Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor including its hardware and software architecture and the key usages that enable these highly parallel applications, like many in Geoscience to achieve new levels of performance while using familiar, standard programming models.