= Programming for the Xeon Phi Coprocessor on Cypress =
The Xeon Phi coprocessor is an accelerator used to provide many cores to parallel applications. While it has fewer threads available than a typical GPU accelerator, the processors are much "smarter" and the programming paradigm is similar to what you experience coding for CPUs.

== Xeon Phi Coprocessor Hardware ==

Each compute node of Cypress is equipped with two (2) Xeon Phi 7120P coprocessors

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The 7120p is equipped with
* 61 Physical cores running at 1.238 GHz
* Four (4) Hardware threads on each core
* 16GB GDDR5 memory
* Uniquely wide SIMD capabilities via 512-bit wide vectors (16 doubles!)

All this adds up to about 2GFLOPS of potential computing power.

== Xeon Phi Usage Models ==