Please note the CPUs they have used are pretty advanced: 2x Intel E5 2670 v3 CPU (24 cores) - approx. price $1.5k per unit (http://ark.intel.com/products/81709/

Please note the CPUs they have used are pretty advanced: 2x Intel E5 2670 v3 CPU (24 cores) - approx. price $1.5k per unit (http://ark.intel.com/products/81709/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-2670-v3-30M-Cache-2_30-GHz http://ark.intel.com/products/81709/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-...). Looking forward to try the code (especially on CIFAR or ImageNet), Zhi-Hua Zhou, one of the authors, said they are going to publish it soon.