Chapter 1
HPMC Calculator
The HPMC Calculator is a small desktop appliance that is capable of running many threads and many cores for high performance computing. The computer is easy to program without the help of any system administrator. The HPMC is the smallest super computer that can be put on the top of your desk. Its computation power can be compared to the large computers that are farmed in large data center. Unlike the super computers that require tense system administration, the HPMC is treated like a calculator. You will power it on and start exploring with high performance computing - similar to what we used to do on the 80's desktop. Inside your HPMC are two cards: an NVIDIA GPU, and an Intel Xeon Phi. A third card, the InfiniBand HCA adapter may be available on a more advanced HPMC calculator. Hence various technology are embedded inside the HPMC, and they are all being driven to provide you with: CUDA Pogramming, Many Integrated Cores, and a DMA connectivity across multiple HPMCs. The aim of this manual is to introduce you to super computing on your HPMC. It also serves as a technical documentation to show the configuration layers of the devices in your HPMC.
