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Xeon Phi 7210 Not Working in Ubuntu 14.04

sundriyal__vaibhav
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I have Xeon Phi 7210 processor in the node that I am using. I am running Ubuntu 14.04 and followed the guide: 

https://arrayfire.com/getting-started-with-the-intel-xeon-phi-on-ubuntu-14-04linux-kernel-3-13-0/.

But even after following the steps, miccheck doesn't detect the Phi.

 miccheck
MicCheck 3.4.10-1
Copyright 2013 Intel Corporation All Rights Reserved

Executing default tests for host
  Test 0: Check number of devices the OS sees in the system ... fail
    no Intel(R) Xeon Phi(TM) coprocessors devices detected

Status: FAIL
Failure: no Intel(R) Xeon Phi(TM) coprocessors devices detected
 

Here is the output of dmidecode:

 dmidecode -t 4
# dmidecode 2.12
SMBIOS 3.0 present.
# SMBIOS implementations newer than version 2.8 are not
# fully supported by this version of dmidecode.

Handle 0x0053, DMI type 4, 48 bytes
Processor Information
        Socket Designation: CPU0
        Type: Central Processor
        Family: Xeon
        Manufacturer: Intel(R) Corporation
        ID: 71 06 05 00 FF FB EB BF
        Signature: Type 0, Family 6, Model 87, Stepping 1
        Flags:
                FPU (Floating-point unit on-chip)
                VME (Virtual mode extension)
                DE (Debugging extension)
                PSE (Page size extension)
                TSC (Time stamp counter)
                MSR (Model specific registers)
                PAE (Physical address extension)
                MCE (Machine check exception)
                CX8 (CMPXCHG8 instruction supported)
                APIC (On-chip APIC hardware supported)
                SEP (Fast system call)
                MTRR (Memory type range registers)
                PGE (Page global enable)
                MCA (Machine check architecture)
                CMOV (Conditional move instruction supported)
                PAT (Page attribute table)
                PSE-36 (36-bit page size extension)
                CLFSH (CLFLUSH instruction supported)
                DS (Debug store)
                ACPI (ACPI supported)
                MMX (MMX technology supported)
                FXSR (FXSAVE and FXSTOR instructions supported)
                SSE (Streaming SIMD extensions)
                SSE2 (Streaming SIMD extensions 2)
                SS (Self-snoop)
                HTT (Multi-threading)
                TM (Thermal monitor supported)
                PBE (Pending break enabled)
        Version: Intel(R) Xeon Phi(TM) CPU 7210 @ 1.30GHz
        Voltage: 0.9 V
        External Clock: 100 MHz
        Max Speed: 4000 MHz
        Current Speed: 1300 MHz
        Status: Populated, Enabled
        Upgrade: <OUT OF SPEC>
        L1 Cache Handle: 0x0051
        L2 Cache Handle: 0x0052
        L3 Cache Handle: Not Provided
        Serial Number: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
        Asset Tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
        Part Number: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
        Core Count: 64
        Core Enabled: 64
        Thread Count: 255
        Characteristics:
                64-bit capable
                Multi-Core
                Hardware Thread
                Execute Protection
                Power/Performance Control
 

 

Can someone help me fix the issue.

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JJK
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that guide is for the first Xeon Phi generation, code named Knight's Corner (KNC); yours is the second gen, Knight's Landing (KNL) which does not need any special drivers - it is just a many-core CPU.  No special software needs to be installed.

 

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sundriyal__vaibhav
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Yeah, I figured that out by my own accidentally though. Thanks for your response anyways.

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