====== SPM 2015/16 Exams ======

===== Project =====

The text for the project is available on [[spm1516project|this page]]

===== PHI performance =====
In the lessons we stated performance of Xeon PHI is 2 to 4 times smaller than the performance observed on the host machine Xeon processors. 

Actually, performance scale factor varies depending on the kind of code executed. Code with quite a number of branches may experience 10x and more slowdown w.r.t. host Xeon processor. 

As far as the project report is concerned, please report **scalability** on PHI and times achieved when using parallelism degree equal to one on both Xeon PHI and host Xeon processor.



===== Access to Xeon PHI =====
[[accessophi1516|This page]] hosts all the informations relative to the access to lab machines. 

===== Exam timetable =====

^ Term ^ Project due ^ Oral exam ^ 
| First | January 22, 2016 | |
| Second | February 19, 2016 | [[calspm0216|Calendar]] |
| Extraordinary term | April 5, 2016 | [[aprile16spm|Calendar]] |
| Third | June 8, 2016 | [[giugno116spm|Calendar]] |
| Fourth | June 29, 2016 | [[giugno216spm|Calendar]] | 
| Fifth | July 20, 2016 | [[luglio16spm|Calendar]] |
| Sixth | September 2, 2016 | |
| Extraordinary term | November 2nd, 2016 (deadline to submit projects) | |