@inproceedings{58808b1e04804f96b162b2ee5acda764,
title = "Best practices for Administering a medium sized cluster with intel {\textregistered} xeon Phi{\texttrademark} coprocessors",
abstract = "This work describes the best practices for configuring and managing an Intel{\textregistered} Xeon Phi{\texttrademark} cluster. The Xeon Phi presents a unique environment to the user and preparing this environment requires unique procedures. This work will outline these procedures and provide examples for HPC Ad- ministrators to utilize and then customize for their system. Considerable effort has been put forth to help researchers determine how to maximize their performance on the Xeon Phi, but little has been done for the administrators of these systems. Now that the Xeon Phis are being deployed on larger systems, there is a need for information on how to manage and deploy these systems. The information pro- vided here will serve as a supplement to the documentation Intel provides in order to bridge the gap between worksta- tion and cluster deployments. This work is based on the authors experiences deploying and maintaining the Beacon cluster at the University of Tennessee's Application Accel- eration Center of Excellence (AACE).",
keywords = "Accelerators, Ad-ministration, Best practice, Cluster, Coprocessors, HPC, Intel MIC, Intel xeon phi, JICS, NICS",
author = "Paul Peltz and Troy Baer",
year = "2014",
doi = "10.1145/2616498.2616538",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781450328937",
series = "ACM International Conference Proceeding Series",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the XSEDE 2014 Conference",
note = "2014 Annual Conference on Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment, XSEDE 2014 ; Conference date: 13-07-2014 Through 18-07-2014",
}