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Dense linear algebra has been traditionally used to evaluate the performance and efficiency of new architectures. This trend has continued for the past half decade with the advent of multi-core processors and hardware accelerators. In this paper we describe how several flavors of the Linpack benchmark are accelerated on Intel's recently released Intel(R) Xeon Phi(TM) co-processor (code-named Knights...