[Beowulf] Cheap Xeon Phi host

Orion Poplawski orion at cora.nwra.com
Tue May 5 19:29:19 PDT 2015


On 05/05/2015 06:06 PM, Christopher Samuel wrote:
> On 05/05/15 03:05, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>
>> I've got two passively cooled Xeon Phi boards.  Any suggestions for a
>> (relatively) cheap host to put them in?  Rackmount preferred.
>
> Would something like a SuperMicro based system work for that?
>
> http://www.supermicro.com/products/nfo/Xeon_Phi.cfm
>
> Lots of people OEM their hardware.
>

Yeah, we've gone with a 5018GR-T based single cpu system.  It's in the 
$2-3k range depending on CPU and RAM, which I guess is pretty reasonable.

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