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We investigate the execution of the Irregular Wave front Propagation Pattern (IWPP), a fundamental computing structure used in several image analysis operations, on the Intel® Xeon PhiTM co-processor. An efficient implementation of IWPP on the Xeon Phi is a challenging problem because of IWPP's irregularity and the use of atomic instructions in the original IWPP algorithm to resolve race conditions...