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> ...but actually getting one has so far proved to be impossible. Where/when did you try buying? I didn't think it was difficult to get the 1st-gen Phi cards w

> ...but actually getting one has so far proved to be impossible. Where/when did you try buying? I didn't think it was difficult to get the 1st-gen Phi cards while they were selling them -- especially as it seemed like nobody wanted them. Admittedly I never bought any myself, my employer picked up some 31S1P from a local server OEM for testing when they were massively discounted. Note that the Knights Landing, the current generation is released socketed only for now, so you'd need to buy a server or the ninja dev platforms Intel sells through Colfax.

jacquesm 9y ago
I tried two online vendors that were actively soliciting customers but when push came to shove they couldn't deliver. Right around the same time I ordered an FPGA dev kit and an NVIDIA board, solved the problem I was dealing with and moved on. Still, I would have very much liked to play around with the 'phi'. > Admittedly I never bought any myself, my employer picked up some 31S1P from a local server OEM for testing when they were massively discounted. That's the kind of deal I was looking at too. Maybe they were massively discounted because they were already EOL'd?
- slizard 9y ago
  > Still, I would have very much liked to play around with the 'phi'. Well, if you're still interested, KNL is a significantly better architecture, so you could just try now. > That's the kind of deal I was looking at too. Maybe they were massively discounted because they were already EOL'd? Refreshed my memory and I was wrong; there was some discussion to jump on the $125-$195/card deal Colfax had late 2014 [1] (likely dumping stock due to EOL), but we figured that they are not even worth that much. In comparison, the one card we have was actually bought just 10-11 months before for ~$1500. [1] http://www.colfax-intl.com/nd/xeonphi/31s1p-promo.aspx http://www.colfax-intl.com/nd/xeonphi/31s1p-promo.aspx

jacquesm 9y ago

I tried two online vendors that were actively soliciting customers but when push came to shove they couldn't deliver. Right around the same time I ordered an FPGA dev kit and an NVIDIA board, solved the problem I was dealing with and moved on. Still, I would have very much liked to play around with the 'phi'. > Admittedly I never bought any myself, my employer picked up some 31S1P from a local server OEM for testing when they were massively discounted. That's the kind of deal I was looking at too. Maybe they were massively discounted because they were already EOL'd?

slizard 9y ago
> Still, I would have very much liked to play around with the 'phi'. Well, if you're still interested, KNL is a significantly better architecture, so you could just try now. > That's the kind of deal I was looking at too. Maybe they were massively discounted because they were already EOL'd? Refreshed my memory and I was wrong; there was some discussion to jump on the $125-$195/card deal Colfax had late 2014 [1] (likely dumping stock due to EOL), but we figured that they are not even worth that much. In comparison, the one card we have was actually bought just 10-11 months before for ~$1500. [1] http://www.colfax-intl.com/nd/xeonphi/31s1p-promo.aspx http://www.colfax-intl.com/nd/xeonphi/31s1p-promo.aspx