[Beowulf] bring back 2012?

[Stu Midgley]

we get EXCELLENT performance from the phi's... just look at our marketing
with Intel.

The 72XX series are also superb.

On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 7:41 AM, Christopher Samuel <samuel at unimelb.edu.au>
wrote:

> On 18/08/16 00:10, Prentice Bisbal wrote:
>
> > I wouldn't be so glad. You're still going to have to rewrite your code
> > as mentioned above to get any meaningful performance.
>
> To be fair to Stu though he did post back in 2013 that he got good
> performance improvements on his codes on Xeon Phi for little initial
> effort, so that's why they're so attractive to him.
>
> http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/2013-February/030963.html
>
> http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/2013-February/030971.html
>
> To us though they've proved not that useful, we can only run them
> in accelerator mode (due to external constraints) and so we've had
> virtually 0 uptake. :-(
>
> All the best,
> Chris
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