Xeon Phi (MIC): Will it crunch?

[zombie67]

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6017/i...ic-goes-retail

[Slicker]

You can bet that their primary language won't be OpenCL -- especially since the coprocessors will be running Linux. The question is cost, availability, compatibility, etc. Remember, it isn't a GPU. It is strictly a coprocessor. So, gamers won't be interested. Unless Intel can come in at 50-75% of the cost of a HD 7970 or whatever the top of the line card is at the time, and/or supporting CUDA or OpenCL, developers aren't going to learn a new technology for a latecomer that may or may not pan out. I see this as similar to Microsoft Silverlight. Nice idea, but took too long to developer and will never win the acceptance of the Adobe Flash developers. If Intel bundled their new coprocessor with their graphics engine to compete head to head with nVidia and AMD, then they might get somewhere. I just don't see this product going mainstream and therefore, will never be more than a niche project which also means expensive and not well supported by others. If 0.01% of the machines are sold with these new coprocessors, would you build drivers so they can be used as virtual machines? The 80/20 rule applies and 0.01 sure isn't 20. That all having been said, I want one!

[rgathright]

The kid in me says, "Buy it for more computing power per box!"
My wallet says, "Can you afford Intel's marketing overhead and the utility bill?"

In conclusion... I'd just rather burn money.

[Duke of Buckingham]

Don't do that.

[trigggl]

Xeon Phis will be independently running an embedded form of Linux, which Intel has said will be of particular benefit for cluster users

You had me at Linux.

[John P. Myers]

Since we like to pay attention to new generations of CPUs and GPUs, figured someone out there could be interested in a new generation of Xeon Phi.

*Knights Corner is the currently available line of Xeon Phi's. Knights Landing is the next gen.

I must warn you though, the drool factor is severe

	Knights Landing	Knights Corner	Haswell i7-4771	Xeon E5-2697 v2
Lithography	14 nm	22 nm	22 nm	22 nm
Base Frequency	1.4 GHz	1.238 GHz	3.6 GHz	2.7 GHz
TDP	300W	300W	84W	130W
Cores	72	61	4	12
DP GFLOPS/core	44.8	19.8	57.6	21.6
L1D Capacity	32kB	32kB	32kB	32kB
L1D Read	128B/cycle	64B/cycle	64B/cycle	32B/cycle
L1D Bandwidth	179.2 GB/s	79.2 GB/s	230.4 GB/s	86.4 GB/s
L2 Capacity/core	256kB	512kB	256kB	256kB
L2 Read/core	64B/cycle	64B/cycle	64B/cycle	32B/cycle
L2 Bandwidth/core	89.6 GB/s	79.2 GB/s	230.4 GB/s	86.4 GB/s
L3 Capacity/core	2 MB	N/A	2 MB	2.5 MB
L3 Read/core	32B/cycle	N/A	32B/cycle	32B/cycle
L3 Bandwidth/core	44.8 GB/s	N/A	115.2 GB/s	86.4 GB/s
Total L1 Read Bandwidth	12.902 TB/s	4.833 TB/s	0.922 TB/s	1.037 TB/s
Total L2 Read Bandwidth	6.451 TB/s	4.833 TB/s	0.922 TB/s	1.037 TB/s
Total L3 Read Bandwidth	3.226 TB/s	N/A	0.128 TB/s	0.384 TB/s
Total LLC Capacity	144 MB	30.5 MB	8 MB	30 MB
Total DP GFLOPS	3225.6	1208.288	230.4	259.2

[circeseye]

ok ok bear with me lol.
this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131817 539.00
with 2x these http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819117269 819.00
video card of choice
then say 6x phi's http://www.amazon.com/Intel-SC3120A-...ords=intel+phi 9360.00

now just that without memory and psu is about 1100.00 but my god think about the possabilities




oh and yes i think im getting addicted to crunching lol

[Duke of Buckingham]