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NERSC's Cori machine is the biggest machine of Knight's Landing (10,000 nodes), 10th on TOP500. Don't know of any planned Knight's Mill machines. Generally, Xe
by desertrider12 8y ago
NERSC's Cori machine is the biggest machine of Knight's Landing (10,000 nodes), 10th on TOP500. Don't know of any planned Knight's Mill machines.
Generally, Xeon Phis get fewer FLOPs than GPUs but are better at certain tasks, e.g. graph algorithms with lots of divergent control flow. Also it's possible to run pure MPI programs on them and get decent performance, and there's a lot of pure-MPI HPC software out there.
- wickberg 8y agoIn terms of KNL deployments, LANL's Trinity system (#9 on June 2018) is slightly larger. Trinity has 9,984 KNL nodes, vs 9,688 in Cori.
- desertrider12 8y agoYep, I missed that one.