Bluntly, it's a great processor on paper, but for the most part, its performance falls severely short of its paper specs. While I was really looking forward to

Bluntly, it's a great processor on paper, but for the most part, its performance falls severely short of its paper specs. While I was really looking forward to Intel shipping a competitive processor to NVIDIA's GPUs, reality disappointed. Intel put 2 engineers on porting a piece of code I wrote for a year. That code is roughly 20x faster on a Maxwell class GPU than on a Haswell class CPU (all cores firing). 2 man years later, instead of the Xeon Phi performing on par with a C1060/GTX 285 as it initially did, it managed to accelerate the CPU code by ~10%. In that time, NVIDIA shipped GK104, GK110 and then GM204 accelerating my code by a factor of 2 relative to GK104. When I tried to help one of the Intel engineers catch up to at least Fermi class GPUs, he got mad at my algorithmic choices and stormed out of the room. Intel IMO will resort to dumping these things at rock bottom prices into data centers in order to spoof just enough low information government wage HPC administrators into believing these things are good for anything more than playing Jenga with them. And that will keep NVIDIA from achieving total HPC dominance in the short term. No idea what the long-term will bring. Intel ought to be able to deliver a compelling part one day, but I suspect that will be a CPU with wider SIMD and more cores.