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Xeon Phi may well cement this further. Knight's Landing, due in 2015, is going to feature 72 Atom cores (288 threads) with AVX, socketed in a standard Xeon moth
by reitzensteinm 12y ago
Xeon Phi may well cement this further. Knight's Landing, due in 2015, is going to feature 72 Atom cores (288 threads) with AVX, socketed in a standard Xeon motherboard.
In situations where your problem domain doesn't fit comfortably within the memory restrictions of a GPU, or porting a legacy code base difficult, this could be a very interesting option.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeon_Phi#Knights_Landing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeon_Phi#Knights_Landing
- bhouston 12y agoIt is a non-starter for the successful commercial renderers because the majority of their market already has render farms with standard CPUs. Also studios generally use a mix of tools and if only one of them is optimized for Xeon Phi's that isn't enough of a motivation to spend the money on Xeon Phi's. It is generally a no go in the mainstream rendering market, although cloud-based renderers can use specialized solutions.