At the 2016 HPC Developer Conference in Salt Lake City, we will be running a lab entitled Understanding and Harnessing the Capabilities of Intel® Xeon Phi™ Processor (Code Named Knights Landing). In order to maximize the benefit from this lab, we are asking all attendees to meet certain requirements and providing some recommendations.
Requirements:
- A laptop or similar portable computer with wireless connectivity.
- A modern SSH client installed on the laptop, such as PuTTY* 0.66 or later for Windows*, iTerm2* for OS X*, or OpenSSH* 5.3 for Linux*.
- Firewall configuration to allow SSH functionality.
Recommended:
- VNC client/viewer program such as VNC Viewer* installed on the laptop for running graphical applications remotely.
- Intel® Parallel Studio XE Cluster Edition 2017 installed on the laptop to use the tools locally.
- Intel® Parallel Studio XE Cluster Edition is available as a free evaluation at https://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-parallel-studio-xe if you do not already have a license.
- Basic familiarity with Intel® C/C++ Compiler, Intel® Trace Analyzer and Collector, Intel® VTune™ Amplifier XE, and Intel® Advisor.
- These are components of Intel® Parallel Studio XE and will be used in the lab.
We expect that all attendees will have completed the required steps before the lab begins and will not be providing support for installing required tools during the lab. We will be providing access to an Intel owned cluster for use during the lab, and will provide assistance with connecting to and using this cluster.