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>> They have little presence in HPC/AI Huh? The Xeon Phi is used regularly in the industry. Nvidia is dominant but to call Intel's presence small is very odd.
by icelancer 9y ago
>> They have little presence in HPC/AI
Huh? The Xeon Phi is used regularly in the industry. Nvidia is dominant but to call Intel's presence small is very odd.
- raugustinus 9y agoDid you miss that Intel's stopped developing the Xeon Phi's?
- icelancer 9y agoI did, since that's not true. Knights Landing is discontinued and Knights Hill is suspended, but they are continuing development for DOE Aurora and other projects and targeting 2020-2021 - while existing stock is used regularly and the used market is plenty active. I get a lot of use out of the x200 line.
- reitzensteinm 9y agoIt is more or less true. Xeon Phi is being replaced by regular high core count Xeons with HBM MCM on one end, and a traditional GPU on the other. While the brand name lives on, it's not at all a continuation of the product line.
- deepnotderp 9y agoA lot of the Xeon phi usage in HPC is due to non technical reasons (e.g. Intel subsidies). The memory bandwidth is just crushingly bad.
- icelancer 9y agoI guess? I mean it is not poorly represented in the Top500 and Top50 for "crushingly bad" memory bandwidth, I'll say that much.