[JDHill]

Interesting price point on the 7120P 16GB unit: $3776.00 (just for comparing price at the same outlet, K20X 6GB is $3998.00).

[numerobis]

nice find... i thought it would be around $5000
so now we only need to know how maxwell performs on this baby...
if it is really at twice the speed of a dual 8-core xeon i think this is a great price

[dmeyer]

Really looking forward to not being able to utilize this.

[numerobis]

Xeon Phi OpenCL results...

http://clbenchmark.com/device-info.jsp? ... t=CLB20101

not really convincing

[numerobis]

I just installed a newer BIOS/EFI for my ASUS P9X79 WS and found an option to turn on support for Xeon Phi cards...
Interesting, i thought you would need a C602/C606 chipset to use them.
I'm not sure if this means that you can use them with i7's too or if it is only working with Xeon's on this board,
but interesting...

[numerobis]

"Knights Landing" to be released as CPU!


http://www.zdnet.com/sc13-intel-reveals ... 000023393/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/19 ... e_changer/

[JDHill]

Pretty interesting, if accurate: http://vr-zone.com/articles/xeon-phi-kn ... 64112.html

[macray]

does it work with Maxwell? I saw an article for a hefty price reduction and think this might be worth checking with Maxwell!?

So, just before I order one to test drive it: Is such an extension card supported by Maxwell?

[JDHill]

No. A Xeon Phi is literally another computer, sitting on a PCIe slot in your main computer, running its own minimal version of linux. Though it runs x86 code, that does not mean it runs Maxwell, any more than saying a Windows executable should run on a Mac, even if both machines have the same model of Intel CPU. Just as with porting to any other OS and CPU, the application, and every library it depends on, must be compiled for the target machine. And that is just to make it run -- not to make it run well, or to take advantage of the unique aspects of this particular CPU. Unless you are into writing and compiling your own (mostly scientific) code, or have some application that is specifically compiled for use with the Phi, I think it would probably end up as a really cool paperweight.

[dmeyer]

I saw the sale a few months ago from a vendor for literally 95% off Phi's. I thought about getting one to use as a paperweight but I believe the promotion has ended.

[JDHill]

I think you're referring to this promotion (also on Amazon). That's a passively-cooled model, so it needs to be put in a server. My wild guess would have to be that these must've been part of a production run intended for some big HPC project that fell through, or something.

[JDHill]

(and again to macray, I should also have mentioned two posts above, that you do need to have a motherboard specifically designed to allow booting the Phi, it won't work on just any machine)

[dmeyer]

When does Knight's Landing drop?

[JDHill]

Maybe second half of this year (image from here):

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However, it was pretty difficult to get your hands on a Xeon Phi for some months after they were made commercially available, so who knows.