One year on since the launch of the 2nd generation Knights Landing (KNL) Intel Xeon Phi platform, a significant amount of application experience has been gathered by the user community. This provided IXPUG (the Intel Xeon Phi User Group) a timely opportunity to share insights on how to best exploit this new many-core processor, and in particular, on how to achieve high performance on current and upcoming large-scale KNL-based systems.