Xeon Phi is actually a pretty nice system to work with but as picky about performance as a GPU while more expensive and harder to find. Combining regular tool

Xeon Phi is actually a pretty nice system to work with but as picky about performance as a GPU while more expensive and harder to find. Combining regular tool chains for code with high core count and SMT on top of AVX512 was nice. 68 cores, 4 way SMT, and 16 way SIMD, provides 4k “threads” in the GPU sense, except the memory hierarchy isn’t nearly as harsh because of the MCDRAM.