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Administrative Tasks
If you purchased the Intel® Xeon Phi™ Coprocessor from an equipment manufacturer, please go to the Intel®
Developer Zone page
http://software.intel.com/mic-developer
and click on tab
“TOOLS & DOWNLOADS”
, then
select “Intel® Manycore Architecture Platform Software Stack (Intel® MPSS)” on this page. This brings you to a
page where you can download the latest hardware drivers and release notes for the platform.
Preparing Your System for First Use
Steps to install the driver and start the card
1.
From Intel® Developer Zone page
http://software.intel.com/mic-developer
, click on tab
“
TOOLS &
DOWNLOADS”
, then select “Intel® Manycore Platform Software Stack (Intel® MPSS)”
on this page.
Navigate to the latest version of MPSS release for Linux and download “Readme file for Linux
(English)” (
readme.txt
). Also download the release notes
(releaseNotes-linux.txt)
and the User’s
Guide for MPSS.
2.
You may install your system with Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 64-bit 6.0 kernel 2.6.32-71, Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 64-bit 6.1 kernel 2.6.32-131, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 64-bit kernel 2.6.32-220,
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 64-bit kernel 2.6.32-279, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 64-bit kernel
2.6.32-358, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 64-bit kernel 2.6.32-431, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
SLES 11 SP2 kernel 3.0.13-0.27-default or SUSE Linux Enterprise Server SLES 11 SP3 kernel 3.0.76-
0.11-default (Section 2.1 in
readme.txt
). Be sure to install ssh, which is used to log in to the card’s
uOS.
WARNING: On installing Red Hat, it may automatically update you to a new version of the Linux kernel.
If this happens, you will not be able to use the pre-built host driver, but will need to rebuild it manually
for the new kernel version. Please see section 2.1 in
readme.txt
for instructions on building an Intel®
MPSS host driver for a specific Linux kernel.
3.
Log in as root.
4.
Download the release driver appropriated for your operating system in step 1 (<
mpss-version
>-rhel-
6.0.tgz, <
mpss-version
>-rhel-6.1.tgz, <
mpss-version
>-rhel-6.2.tgz, <
mpss-version
>-rhel-6.3.tgz,
<
mpss-version
>-rhel-6.4.tgz, <
mpss-version
>-rhel-6.5.tgz, <
mpss-version
>-suse-11.2.tgz or <
mpss-
version
>-suse-11.3.tgz) where <
mpss-version
> is mpss-3.2 at the time when this document was
updated
5.
Install the host driver RPMs as detailed in section 2.2 of
readme.txt.
Don’t skip the creation of
configuration files for your coprocessor.
6.
Update the flash on your coprocessor(s) as detailed in section 2.4 of
readme.txt.
7.
Reboot the system.
8.
Start the Intel® Xeon Phi™ Coprocessor
(while you can set up the card to start with the host system, it
will not do so by default), and then run “
micinfo
” to verify that it is set up properly:
sudo service mpss start
sudo micctrl –w
sudo /usr/bin/micinfo
