<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">We love them.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 10:17 AM, Christopher Samuel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:samuel@unimelb.edu.au" target="_blank">samuel@unimelb.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 16/11/17 12:58, Gerald Henriksen wrote:<br>
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> Maybe worth pointing out that Intel has big changes in store, which<br>
> may or may not be a factor in the Xeon Phi future:<br>
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</span>Might be a case of history repeating itself as Xeon Phi came out of the<br>
work Intel did on the Larrabee discreet GPU (which they killed in 2010).<br>
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Christopher Samuel Senior Systems Administrator<br>
Melbourne Bioinformatics - The University of Melbourne<br>
Email: <a href="mailto:samuel@unimelb.edu.au">samuel@unimelb.edu.au</a> Phone: <a href="tel:%2B61%20%280%293%20903%2055545" value="+61390355545">+61 (0)3 903 55545</a><br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="monospace, monospace">Dr Stuart Midgley<br><a href="mailto:sdm900@gmail.com" target="_blank">sdm900@gmail.com</a></font></div></div></div>
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