Intel's "Knight's Corner" and Terragen

[penang]

Did a search on the forum and found no mention of Intel's new "Knight's Corner" chip.

Url for the chip is at : http://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-knights-corner-mic-co-processor,14002.html

The chip has 50+ core, all running on x86 instruction. Reportedly - and I can not confirm this - it can reach 1TFLOP of double precision floating point performance.

Assuming that this chip will one day becomes a reality - can someone tell me how much Terragen will benefit from this 50+ core chip?

Thanks, and Happy New Year !

[rcallicotte]

Cool.  LOL  Not sure where this technology is going, but it will definitely be faster, eh?

[penang]

I am resurrecting this old thread for one reason - Intel is going to ship Knight's Corner later this year

The new product's name (tentatively) is Xeon Phi



The first gen of Xeon Phi will have 50 cores, all fits into one PCI-E slot, with at least 8GB of GDDR5 memory on board

More information is @

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6017/intel-announces-xeon-phi-family-of-coprocessors-mic-goes-retail

and

http://hothardware.com/Reviews/Intel-Announces-MIC-Xeon-Phi-Aims-For-Exascale-Computing/

[penang]

One more resource for Knight's Corner

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_MIC#Knights_Corner