Research Article

Adaptation of MPDATA Heterogeneous Stencil Computation to Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor

Table 1

Specification of tested platforms [36].

ā€‰ First platform Second platform

Product Intel Xeon Intel Xeon Intel Xeon Intel Xeon
E5-2697 v2 Phi 3120A E5-2665 Phi 7120P
Code name Ivy
Bridge
Knights
Corner
Sandy
Bridge-EP
Knights
Corner
Number of cores 2 12 57 2 8 61
Number of threads 2 24 228 2 16 244
SIMD length [bits] 256 512 256 512
Freq. [GHz] 2.7 1.1 2.4 1.238
Peak [GFlop/s] 518 1003 307 1208
LLC size [MB] 2 30 28.5 2 20 30.5
Memory size [GB] 64 6 64 16
Memory bandwidth [GB/s] 2 51.2 240 2 51.2 352

Last level cache (LLC) refers to L3 cache for CPU, and to L2 cache for Intel MIC.