Parallel Universe Magazine - Issue 12, November 2012

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Contents:

• Letter from the Editor: When Complex Is the Baseline, by James Reinders
   
• Shedding Light on Cluster Performance with LAMMPS, by Walter Shands
  Highlights the features of Intel® Cluster Studio XE by using them to build and analyze LAMMPS, a complex cluster application and benchmark used in Spec MPI*.
   
• Checklist for Programming Intel® Xeon Phi™ Coprocessors, by James Reinders
  Offers key tips for programming a high degree of parallelism, while using familiar programming methods and the latest Intel® tools supporting the Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessor.
   
• Advanced Vectorization, by Georg Zitzlsberger
  Applying some of the vectorization techniques enabled by Intel® compilers and their Intel® Cilk™ Plus technologies to an example application.
   
• Optimizing Correlation Analysis of Financial Market Data Streams Using Intel® Math Kernel Library, by Zhang Zhang, Andrey Nikolaev, and Victoriya Kardakova
  Demonstrates the performance advantages of Intel Math Kernel Library in the implementation of the online noise filtration algorithm on a correlation analysis of financial market data.