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Tag Archives: Xeon Phi
Cost: The Biggest Pothole on the Exascale Road
Recently, industry analyst John Barr wrote at the ISC blog about “Potholes on the Road to Exascale”. John speaks about a unified programming environment that should be able to support all sorts of computing devices of the future. That’s right: … Continue reading
Exascale Supercomputers: Anything but Cheap
Science and engineering both rely on the continuous increase in supercomputing performance. Back in 2009, it was believed that exascale machines will become available by 2018 — nine years ahead seemed like a lot of time. No one knew how … Continue reading
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Tagged exascale, hardware, InfiniBand, Intel, networking, power, Xeon Phi
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Using Eight Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessors for Asteroid Simulation
Colfax International is a US-based IT equipment and solution provider. What’s so special about them is that their web-based retail shop, Colfax Direct, lists thousands of items ready to be shipped, and all prices are available online, with no dumb … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, Colfax International, hardware, Intel, X86, Xeon Phi
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Memory Bandwidth for Intel Xeon Phi (And Friends)
John D. McCalpin, Ph.D., informally known as “Dr. Bandwidth” for his invention of STREAM memory bandwidth benchmark, posted STREAM results for Intel Xeon Phi and two Xeon-based servers made by Dell (see the end of his blog entry). All three … Continue reading
Intel MIC, aka Xeon Phi, aka Doubtful Creativity
They created a monster. It contains enough cores to be a computer on its own — yet it needs to be plugged into a “real” computer, and acts only as an accelerator. It’s cores are based on P54C architecture, introduced … Continue reading