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Title: Intel's "Knight's Corner" and Terragen
Post by: penang on December 30, 2011, 06:36:53 PM

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 (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 !

Title: Re: Intel's "Knight's Corner" and Terragen
Post by: rcallicotte on January 03, 2012, 06:40:52 PM

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

Title: Re: Intel's "Knight's Corner" and Terragen
Post by: penang on June 20, 2012, 02:01:45 AM

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

(http://images.anandtech.com/doci/6017/XPhiCard_575px.jpg)

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/

Title: Re: Intel's "Knight's Corner" and Terragen
Post by: penang on June 20, 2012, 02:45:46 AM

One more resource for Knight's Corner

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

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