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At 500 gigaflops, I would buy these in a heartbeat if they were offered for sale to the public. While that's only half the performance of a xeon phi, this is a
by nxjfxgkkt 10y ago
At 500 gigaflops, I would buy these in a heartbeat if they were offered for sale to the public. While that's only half the performance of a xeon phi, this is a traditional CPU which makes programming it much more straightforward. Not to mention that the cost would be significantly less.
- imtringued 10y agoNowadays Xeon Phis are traditional CPUs.
- milcron 10y agoThis is true! New with the Knights Landing generation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeon_Phi#Knights_Landing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeon_Phi#Knights_Landing available in two forms, as a coprocessor or a host processor
- mrb 10y ago512 single precision GFLOPS is not half, but 1/10th the performance of a Xeon Phi (Xeon Phi 7210 is 5325 single precision GFLOPS). However perhaps this processor beats the Xeon Phi 7210 in perf/price as the latter is horrendously priced at $2438 (list price) as well as perf/watt.
- snaky 10y agoDo you think this 64-core beast would be priced at less than $243?
- mrb 10y agoProbably not, but maybe. This chinese processor is hardly a beast. It is comparable (±20%) in raw GFLOPS to a ~$200 Intel skylake processor: 4-core 3.3GHz i7-6700K is rated 422 single precision GFLOPS.
- petra 10y agoDie size is 640mm2, die cost is ~$42(asumming TSMC's yields, chinese fabs have much lower yields) - so at volume manufacturing cost(including test and package) is surely less than $100 ,closer to $60-70. And in large enough volume, assuming 50% gross margins, sure it could be cheaper.
- ww520 10y agoImagine a Beowulf cluster of these. A personal super-computer. God, I can't believe the only thing that comes to mine about Slashdot is the Beowulf cluster.
- anonbanker 10y agoNatalie Portman, naked and petrified, covered in hot grits? FP? CowboyNeal? GNAA?
- sliken 10y agoEr, how is a phi not like a traditional CPU? It runs linux, you can use python, c, perl, go, rust, whatever. It's basically an x86 with more cores and a larger vector unit.