Kelly Gaither gave a great talk at High Performance Graphics a couple of years ago (http://www.highperformancegraphics.org/previous/www_2012/media/Keynotes/HPG2

Kelly Gaither gave a great talk at High Performance Graphics a couple of years ago (http://www.highperformancegraphics.org/previous/www_2012/media/Keynotes/HPG2012_Keynote_Gaither.pdf http://www.highperformancegraphics.org/previous/www_2012/med...) if anyone is interested in more detail. An interesting tidbit during the Q&A is that Intel donated the Xeon Phi boards (referred to as MIC back then).