A full price board would require a procurement in many education/research organizations, but now you can just buy it through same channel as a spare laptop batt

A full price board would require a procurement in many education/research organizations, but now you can just buy it through same channel as a spare laptop battery (ask your lab engineer or whatever). Also, think China or India. As for the cooling question, this is designed for rack servers that have a good front to back forced airflow. No doubt people will try various tricks at fan mounting to run in a desktop PC. See one recipe here: http://openwall.info/wiki/internal/xeon_phi http://openwall.info/wiki/internal/xeon_phi