Huh, yeah--here's their whitepaper: http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/solution-briefs/accelerating-hadoop-applications-brief.pdf http:

Huh, yeah--here's their whitepaper: http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/solution-briefs/accelerating-hadoop-applications-brief.pdf http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/... Of course they'll tend to pick cases where it helps a lot, but they claimed 50% wall time and 25% power savings on a Hadoop job, and they emulate the zlib API. If I'm reading right this was with a Sandy Bridge-based Xeon; time saved by the coprocessor could be greater when the CPU is slower. Really interesting--thanks for the pointer.