> This reads as a fairly direct attack on the idea of that many core architectures such as the Intel Xeon Phi Whoever's pushing that should read the overview p

> This reads as a fairly direct attack on the idea of that many core architectures such as the Intel Xeon Phi Whoever's pushing that should read the overview page for Intel Xeon Phi [1]: > While a majority of applications (80 to 90 percent) will continue to achieve maximum performance on Intel Xeon processors, certain highly parallel applications will benefit dramatically by using Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors. To take full advantage of Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors, an application must scale well to over 100 software threads and either make extensive use of vectors or efficiently use more local memory bandwidth than is available on an Intel Xeon processor. Examples of segments with highly parallel applications include: animation, energy, finance, life sciences, manufacturing, medical, public sector, weather, and more. Following that is a picture that says "pick the right tool for the job". [1] http://www.intel.com.au/content/www/au/en/processors/xeon/xeon-phi-coprocessor-overview.html http://www.intel.com.au/content/www/au/en/processors/xeon/xe...