Introduction
This section focuses on Knights Landing itself, diving into the architecture, the high bandwidth memory, the cluster modes, and the integrated fabric. Like any computer, really understanding it gives us the best application tuning opportunities to utilize it well. This section builds that deep understanding. However, for first-time, many-core programmers, Chapters 2–6 may be an excessive amount of information and could be skipped after reading Chapter 1 by proceeding directly to read Sections II and III of this book. Ultimately, this section contains the Knights Landing details that any expert programmer desiring optimal performance will want to understand.
Chapter 1 describes the motivation for many-core and provides an overview ...
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