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

[Scott Atchley]

Some of the research has already made it into products and more is slated
for future products. As with all research, some did not pan out, but that
is to be expected.

On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 7:58 AM, C Bergström <cbergstrom at pathscale.com>
wrote:

> Actually, the better question is, which vendor received funds and actually
> made a useful solution that can go production with the deliverables. From
> my view it seems like history is repeating itself[1] and I wish more people
> would wake up. The top down approach to funding scientific research and the
> in-fighting between labs is just too much nonsense. If these research
> projects were a start-up, it would have failed hard.
>
>  [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X87
>
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 8:50 PM, Scott Atchley <e.scott.atchley at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hmm, can you name a large processor vendor who has not accepted US
>> government research funding in the last five years? See DOE's FastForward,
>> FastForward2, DesignForward, DesignForward2, and now PathForward.
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 9:18 PM, Jonathan Engwall <
>> engwalljonathanthereal at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Maybe they felt married to government sponsorship while the competition
>>> has found a way to compete with itself.
>>> http://www.nag.co.za/2017/10/26/amd-launches-ryzen-processor
>>> -with-radeon-vega-graphics-for-notebooks/
>>> Maybe such a huge contract even looks too good to be true.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 3:06 AM, Mikhail Kuzminsky <kus at free.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately I did not find the english version, but Andreas
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Essentially yes Xeon Phi is not continued, but a new design called
>>>>> Xeon-H is coming.
>>>>>
>>>> Yes, and Xeon-H has close to KNL codename - Knights Cove. May be some
>>>> important (for HPC) microarchitecture features will remain.
>>>> But in any case stop of Xeon Phi give pluses for new NEC SX-Aurora.
>>>>
>>>> Mikhail Kuzminsky
>>>>
>>>> Zelinsky Institute
>>>> of Organic Chemistry
>>>> Moscow
>>>>
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