Allocating memory on the MIC from the host

[Akshay_Venkatesh]

Hi All,

Just out of curiosity, is there way to allocate memory on the MIC from the host or does the offload engine entirely responsible for this?

Thanks,

[Kevin_D_Intel]

With offload the offload engine should perform the allocation. The Behind the Scenes: Offload Memory Management on the Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessor blog discusses reasons why.

One can allocate/manage heap-allocated data within an offload region if that's the interest. Refer to Explicitly managed Heap-allocated Data discussed here. A related thread here may offer further insight.