Intel Xeon Phi - IBM Flex x240

[Per_M_]

Hi

I joint the HPC Code Modernization Workshop held in Stockholm on June 3'rd 2015.

At the workshop we were offered an Intel software/hardware bundle including "Intel Parallel Studio XE Cluster Edition and 1 Intel Xeon Phi 5150P".

My development environment is a IBM Flex x240  computer node with 2 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2643 0 @ 3.30GHz CPU's and 256 GB RAM.

In order to install the Intel Xeon Phi 5110P, I need to by a Flex System PCIe Expansion Node, but I am a bit unsure if the offered Xeon Phi processor can be installed.

The documentation for the Flex System PCIe Expansion Node shows that an Intel Xeon Phi 5110P for Flex System PCIe Expansion Node.

My question is if this is as special version of 5110P or it is the same as included in the offered bundle?

Per Madsen

[Frances_R_Intel]

Sorry, I missed seeing this earlier. Looking at http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/tips1199.html, it does look like the system should support the coprocessor you are looking at - as far as connectivity, firmware and software are concerned. However, in looking at the picture of the expansion node, I suspect you will have a problem with cooling. the 5110P is passively cooled (i.e. no fan). You may need to provide extra cooling. There are a number of forum issue discussing providing extra cooling for the 31S1P card. Everything they say applies as well to the 5110P.