Xeon CoProcessor GrafixCard

[Lauralarry]

When I heard 50 Cores I thought a Cpu but no.. It's just a GPu

Today, with the announcement of Intel® Xeon® Phi™ coprocessors, we’re going to accelerate the pace of these discoveries and innovations. Intel® Xeon Phi products extend the Intel® Xeon® brand – found in over 70% of the world’s supercomputers (see TOP500) – by providing the programmability of the Intel Xeon processor architecture to an emerging class of highly parallel applications that benefit from processors containing a large number of cores and threads. Lots of technical talk there, but let me put this into human terms. While the vast majority of software applications are best suited to Intel® Xeon® processors, these highly parallel applications benefit from a bunch of mathematical calculations performed at once. For example, if you’re trying to accurately track a weather storm, the more accurately you can predict the movement of each molecule of the storm in relation to every other molecule, the more accurate the prediction. This is what we call a “highly parallel application”.

 

[Josh Weston]

Hmmm...I wonder what PPD that would yield

 

[AverageNinja]

Hmmm...I wonder what PPD that would yield

I was thinking the same
I only get 250 points per WU on my PS3.

 

[nepas]

Isn't this the old "Larrabee"?


EDIT:Yep!

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

http://www.brightsideofnews.com/new...nights-corner-in-20122c-exascale-in-2018.aspx

 

[VengeanceUK]

and i wonder what one of those would cost rrp?

 

[wassupdoc]

I would think you would need a second mortgage

 

[Yeren]

and i wonder what one of those would cost rrp?

My guess, more than i can afford

 

[Goldskis45]

probably in the same ballpark as a Tesla... +30%

EDIT:
Well, if it goes in the direction some seem to think that posted on the second article, maybe even under 1k?

If that was true, I would get a couple just for sh1ts and giggles...

 

[Josh Weston]

I wish I could buy a couple of near 1k objects for shiggles. That would be just dandy.

 

[yassarikhan786]

I wish I could buy a couple of near 1k objects for shiggles. That would be just dandy.

Just ask the couple who won £148 mil to give you a piece of the pie

 

[Josh Weston]

I could build CERN for that

 

[yassarikhan786]

I could build CERN for that

You would come close

 

[Goldskis45]

You would come close

hahaha, not really but ok XD

 

[yassarikhan786]

hahaha, not really but ok XD

lol, I know XD

 

[jamesriley94]

...you can get several thousand Xeon Phi's and try and simulate what happens at CERN

 

[merrymustu]

Can the pcie interface provide the high bandwidth that this 50-core gpu requires to process data at full 50-core efficiency??? :/

 

[Goldskis45]

Can the pcie interface provide the high bandwidth that this 50-core gpu requires to process data at full 50-core efficiency??? :/

Actually you don't necessarily need full 16x pci-e. there is a reason that people fold with lots of cards running 1x and 4x... for the most part the only time you need 16x is when it is rendering graphics that need to be displayed right then and there for your monitor... to do calculations it can basically load the program into it and then offloads the data to the dump space.. (for the most part cutting the needed bandwidth to less than half of what is needed for a graphics card... And even to half of what a 1x connection can handle depending on the program)...

So yes... it can more than handle it...

 

[merrymustu]

Actually you don't necessarily need full 16x pci-e. there is a reason that people fold with lots of cards running 1x and 4x... for the most part the only time you need 16x is when it is rendering graphics that need to be displayed right then and there for your monitor... to do calculations it can basically load the program into it and then offloads the data to the dump space.. (for the most part cutting the needed bandwidth to less than half of what is needed for a graphics card... And even to half of what a 1x connection can handle depending on the program)...

So yes... it can more than handle it...

Thanks for all the info dude, much appreciated...

 

[rossi94]

Makes sence in my eyes, almost every supercomputer uses Nvidia cards to get more power now intel made their own.

 

[SnW]

Hmmm...I wonder what PPD that would yield

Hey! , that's my line