Re: [Beowulf] Help: Raspberry Pi Cluster

2012-12-14 Thread Charlie Peck
On Dec 13, 2012, at 6:48 PM, Lux, Jim (337C) wrote: > … > Let us not also forget the marketing value of a table full of blinky lights > computers compared to a bunch of boxes displayed on a screen. If you were > trying to sell the concept to be used at full scale with bigger faster nodes, > t

[Beowulf] Xeon Phi questions - does it have *any* future?

2012-12-14 Thread Vincent Diepeveen
Hi James, The big question i would like to ask intel architects is whether the Xeon Phi architecture has a future, so what comes AFTER this Xeon Phi? The next chip that's at least 2x faster than Xeon Phi, is it ever going to be there? if so, at what price? From what i understand it has cach

Re: [Beowulf] XeonPhi notes.

2012-12-14 Thread Vincent Diepeveen
Seems intel has you in your pocket. Initially you say it runs x86 code but no performance gets given of it - whereas already architects admitted it's a weak x86 structure and is only fast if you rewrite your code completely vectorized - which gives it no advantage over gpu cards. Later on you

[Beowulf] XeonPhi notes.

2012-12-14 Thread James Cuff
Hi team, I've put a few notes up on our prerelease Phi engineering sample on the blog: http://blog.jcuff.net/search/label/PHI Might be interesting to a few folks on the list. Sorry I can't talk numbers, it's not fair to talk benchmarks on unreleased product but there are some fun things we disc