[Beowulf] Intel kills Knights Hill, Xeon Phi line "being revised"

Stu Midgley sdm900 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 15 18:32:26 PST 2017


We have a few thousand KNL systems.  They are amazingly fast when
programmed correctly and can be treated as a normal x86_64 system from a
cluster management point of view.

We love them.

On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 10:17 AM, Christopher Samuel <samuel at unimelb.edu.au>
wrote:

> On 16/11/17 12:58, Gerald Henriksen wrote:
>
> > Maybe worth pointing out that Intel has big changes in store, which
> > may or may not be a factor in the Xeon Phi future:
>
> Might be a case of history repeating itself as Xeon Phi came out of the
> work Intel did on the Larrabee discreet GPU (which they killed in 2010).
>
> --
>  Christopher Samuel        Senior Systems Administrator
>  Melbourne Bioinformatics - The University of Melbourne
>  Email: samuel at unimelb.edu.au Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545
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