The machine with the Xeon PHI cards may be accessed using the IP address

131.114.137.225

and the credentials distributed during the lessons to the attendind students.

The credentials give access to a local account onto a Sandy Bridge multicore hosting the 2 PHI PCIe boards.

In order to access the PHI, users should use an

ssh mic0

or

ssh mic1

command from the Sandy Bridge machine shell prompt.

In order to produce executable programs for the PHI

1. the icc compiler must be used to compile the source code on the Sandy Bridge host, and
2. the -mic flag should be specified