5 ms·
Intel's Knights Landing / Xeon Phi architecture is a bit like that.
by Xophmeister 9y ago
Intel's Knights Landing / Xeon Phi architecture is a bit like that.
- rbanffy 9y agoEventually we'll face the fact cores won't get any faster and that even phones will have a dozen of them. Porting our code to run well on such machines is a bet people should start making.
- rjsw 9y ago... or a bet that vendors should start making. Intel could sell bottom bin Xeon Phi chips as development systems. I don't care if half the cores have failed testing and are masked off or it won't run at full speed.
- rbanffy 9y agoI would love if they did that. Developers always have the computers of the future on their desks. If Intel wants Phi to be part of that future, they'd better put them on developers' desks.
- flyinghamster 9y agoConsidering that even my far-from-flagship phone has an eight-core processor, I wouldn't be surprised to see a 12-core in the near future.
- deaddodo 9y agoSure, but that's more like dual-quad (since no one uses Asymmetrical MultiProcessing).
- rbanffy 9y agoWhich is also another bet people should start making. Most of the time, my laptop is doing workloads that would leave an Atom bored to death, but when I need it, I sure love those i7 cores. I would gladly sacrifice one i7 core for 4 Atom ones, provided the OS knew what to do with them.
- ryacko 9y agoYeah, it's a latency vs power vs parallelism issue
- pjmlp 9y agoThis is one reason why WinRT initially only had async APIs.
- mtgx 9y agoWasn't Phi more of an HPC/machine learning solution, not a server solution? I don't think they target the same kind of applications anyway.