Dear Santa: Intel® Xeon Phi Coprozessor ?

[Bjur]

You can plug such a thing into an not used graphics card slot of an remote render slave for example and you will render things with additional 60+ Xeon cores and up to 240 threads!?

Would this thing be compatible as a coprocessor for your consumer win/mac/linux PC at home?
It sounds like a relative "cheap" mini-renderfarm for everyones and it's moms home and too great to be true.
Would also mean: No more need for puzzeling out a stable 24/7 hardcore OC'ing of your main cpu for gaining just another 1 GHz or spending lots of money for switching complete to new hardware platform, because your elder but still well working PC system is just lacking a few but needed GHz..

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Intel-Xeon-Phi-Coprocessor-CPU,22700.html

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/high-performance-computing/high-performance-xeon-phi-coprocessor-brief.html

http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/independent-test-xeon-phi-shocks-tesla-gpu/

Some (german) PC hardware online stores have one of them (5110P) already listed for ~ 2600 €. It seems they will enter the market within next weeks..

Pls explain if i am missunderstanding something or discuss generally.. 

[Tangled-Universe]

Nah, these things can't handle a lot of instruction sets like SSE, so it's practically useless very anything related to digital content creation.
Also software itself needs optimisations to work properly with the architecture.

This is great stuff for servers and virtualisation, but not for 3D stuff unfortunately.

[Bjur]

Thx for clarifying.

For a very short time i started to believe in CGI gods, but there are just deamons right now everybody has to fight against..