Re: [Beowulf] Intel kills Knights Hill, Xeon Phi line "being revised"

2017-11-15 Thread Stu Midgley
we have over 4500 KNC's and love those as well :) The KNL's are pretty bad at normal integer workloads, but for massively threaded and vectorised codes, they are very very fast. On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 11:02 AM, Christopher Samuel wrote: > On 16/11/17 13:59, C Bergström wrote: > > > I'm torn be

Re: [Beowulf] Intel kills Knights Hill, Xeon Phi line "being revised"

2017-11-15 Thread Christopher Samuel
On 16/11/17 13:59, C Bergström wrote: > I'm torn between Knowing Stu and what he does I'll take the former over the latter.. :-) -- Christopher SamuelSenior Systems Administrator Melbourne Bioinformatics - The University of Melbourne Email: sam...@unimelb.edu.au Phone: +61 (0)3 903 5

Re: [Beowulf] Intel kills Knights Hill, Xeon Phi line "being revised"

2017-11-15 Thread C Bergström
On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 10:32 AM, Stu Midgley wrote: > We have a few thousand KNL systems. They are amazingly fast when > programmed correctly and can be treated as a normal x86_64 system from a > cluster management point of view. > I'm torn between The darkside runs deep in this one or That's

Re: [Beowulf] Intel kills Knights Hill, Xeon Phi line "being revised"

2017-11-15 Thread Stu Midgley
We have a few thousand KNL systems. They are amazingly fast when programmed correctly and can be treated as a normal x86_64 system from a cluster management point of view. We love them. On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 10:17 AM, Christopher Samuel wrote: > On 16/11/17 12:58, Gerald Henriksen wrote: > >

Re: [Beowulf] Intel kills Knights Hill, Xeon Phi line "being revised"

2017-11-15 Thread Christopher Samuel
On 16/11/17 12:58, Gerald Henriksen wrote: > Maybe worth pointing out that Intel has big changes in store, which > may or may not be a factor in the Xeon Phi future: Might be a case of history repeating itself as Xeon Phi came out of the work Intel did on the Larrabee discreet GPU (which they kil

Re: [Beowulf] Intel kills Knights Hill, Xeon Phi line "being revised"

2017-11-15 Thread Gerald Henriksen
On Thu, 16 Nov 2017 10:45:40 +1100, you wrote: >Interesting times (via a colleague on the Australian HPC Slack). > >https://www.top500.org/news/intel-dumps-knights-hill-future-of-xeon-phi-product-line-uncertain/ > >Looks like fallout from the delayed Aurora system. > >Rumours flying that the Xeon

[Beowulf] Intel kills Knights Hill, Xeon Phi line "being revised"

2017-11-15 Thread Christopher Samuel
Interesting times (via a colleague on the Australian HPC Slack). https://www.top500.org/news/intel-dumps-knights-hill-future-of-xeon-phi-product-line-uncertain/ Looks like fallout from the delayed Aurora system. Rumours flying that the Xeon Phi family is in jeopardy, but the article has an adden