Intel announces HPC Knights Landing Xeon Phi accelerator

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Be on the lookout for Miles Bennett Dyson.
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Did I really read P54c as last iteration? I had that so many years ago. So, project was canned for pretty long time. 72Cores (Or maybe threads) is not that impressive in 2016. And in 2017 it will not be impressive at all. And those slides showing actual workloads... Compared to what exactly? AMD is pretty bad in their presentations, and approximating real world performance from that can end up anywhere within 30% above or below. But this presentation. It tops that since it is compared to unspecified product. - - - - I guess it is going to be 20% faster than grandma's wheelchair.
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Did I really read P54c as last iteration? I had that so many years ago. So, project was canned for pretty long time. 72Cores (Or maybe threads) is not that impressive in 2016. And in 2017 it will not be impressive at all. And those slides showing actual workloads... Compared to what exactly? AMD is pretty bad in their presentations, and approximating real world performance from that can end up anywhere within 30% above or below. But this presentation. It tops that since it is compared to unspecified product. - - - - I guess it is going to be 20% faster than grandma's wheelchair.
It's four threads per core and IIRC it's 3Tflops of double precision and 6 single. I guess the advantage is the check boxes on the second slide.
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Xeon Most Widely Adopted for Machine Learning 2 2 Source: Intel Estimates
You're kidding, right? Yet another marketing bs. Besides, you can find more rendering apps supporting GPUs than Intel Xeon Phi.
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Did I read that correctly $6,000 Grand?! As in six thousand us dollars? Does that come with an Intel office (female compainion?) haha.
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Can it run Crysis?
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The main issue with Xeon Phi is that it is still a Xeon... On other hand it's a good argument to sold it too.