2H 2015

Relative Performance
Leverage Code Resources
Code Modernization benefits both the Processor & the Coprocessor
2S Xeon E5-2697 v2 (Original Parallel) 2S Xeon E5-2697 v2 (Optimized) 2S Xeon E5-2697 v2 + 1 Xeon Phi 7120A (Optimized)
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Code Modernization results in
significant improvements for both the
processor and the coprocessor
Original
Parallel Code
(Xeon Only)
1.7X 2.22
3.43X
1.70
Optimized
1 Optimized
Code
1
Code
(Xeon +
(Xeon Only)
Xeon Phi)
Amber 14 Cellulose NPT
Original
Parallel Code
(Xeon Only)
3.43
Optimized
Code
(Xeon Only)
LAMMPS Liquid Crystal
5.07
Optimized
Code
(Xeon +
Xeon Phi)
Xeon = Intel® Xeon® processor
Xeon Phi = Intel® Xeon Phi coprocessor
Code Optimizations
- Reduce host data xfer
- Better data decomp. between CPU & Card
- Better parallellization
- Better OpenMP sched.
Code Optimizations
- Better Vectorization
- Mixed Precision support
- Misc changes for better
parallelization
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