[Beowulf] Working for DUG, new thead

[Prentice Bisbal]

On 06/20/2018 08:36 AM, Michael Di Domenico wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 10:46 PM, Stu Midgley <sdm900 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Where Intel made the mistake was to assume they could shift people from
>> GPUs.  People who have spent years writing and optimising won't shift
>> easily... cause they have to go through that whole process again.  Getting
>> people back to x86 once they have shifted is a long long term goal.
> this is where my environment fell over with respect to KNC and KNL.
> Once the dev's got their hands on the cards they realized they had to
> refactor the code away from gpu's.  and the few that did, didn't get
> much performance benefit over just using a gpu which they already
> knew.
>
> intel could have cornered the market from gpu's if they had released
> KNL first and not been so late to the market.  once CUDA took hold,
> game over.
Well, there was the Intel Larrabee project, which was killed before it 
ever went into production, which set Intel back some.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larrabee_(microarchitecture)

And I'm sure there was some arrogance in this mix, also. I bet Intel 
figured they could be late to the game, and still win, because they're 
Intel, or would just use the same tactics that they used to crush AMD 
once the Nehalem processor came out. They were late that party, too, but 
still won.

Prentice