vickybat
I am the night...I am...
Intel Haswell-E to Pack Eight Cores, Quad-Channel DDR4 Memory Controller.
These cpu's will shine in highly parallel tasks owing to greater IPC. An eight core haswell-E will bring a new era of multicore computing.
Intel Unleashes Next-Generation Xeon Phi “Knights Landing” Co-Processor.
The next-generation xeon-phi co-processors are unveiled. They have a new architecture, with 14nm fabrication
and 3d trigate transistors. Will come in a 57 core and 61 core avatar and are purely meant for servers applications and supercomputers.
I wonder what anybody will do with these in a desktop environment, if they ever show up in this space.
These cpu's will shine in highly parallel tasks owing to greater IPC. An eight core haswell-E will bring a new era of multicore computing.
Intel Unleashes Next-Generation Xeon Phi “Knights Landing” Co-Processor.
The next-generation xeon-phi co-processors are unveiled. They have a new architecture, with 14nm fabrication
and 3d trigate transistors. Will come in a 57 core and 61 core avatar and are purely meant for servers applications and supercomputers.I wonder what anybody will do with these in a desktop environment, if they ever show up in this space.
They won't. They're direct competitors to Nivida's CUDA based Tesla supercompute clusters, and as you already know, Xeon Phi will only be available as add-on expansion cards and as direct addons in blade servers.
Basically with this line, Intel is trying hard to state that it is still relevant in the supercompute space (Tesla has been eating away Intel's share for quite some time in this space).
It would make no sense for Intel to even fathom operating this in the consumer space.
Basically with this line, Intel is trying hard to state that it is still relevant in the supercompute space (Tesla has been eating away Intel's share for quite some time in this space).
It would make no sense for Intel to even fathom operating this in the consumer space.
Cilus
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^^ Vicky, they are not CPU; they are co-processor to accelerate parallel processing and targeted for High performance Computing environments like Super Computers, Wether prediction, DNA calculation etc. You don't need to wonder because they won't come in Desktop environment.
Exactly. They're not even X86. They're 96-bit VLIW units.
vickybat
I am the night...I am...
Wrong, they are fully x86. Being a vector unit, they support intel's 512 bit SIMD instruction set that intel calls "initial many core instructions" or IMCI.
They also support FMA3 and other integer instructions found in regular x86 instructions.
Owing to their vector nature, they can also be programmed for open-cl, fortran and c++.
X86 memory management is also found here.
This isn't VLIW!!!! It rather shares architectural similarities with GCN.
Intel widens Xeon Phi HPC coprocessor lineup
Cilus
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Actually Xeon Phi is a derivative from Intel's research of Intel Many Integrated Core Architecture or Intel MIC which incorporate many ideas like SIMD design, Teraflop Research Chip and the original P5 mcroarchitecture powering Pentium. The 96 Bit VLIW was present in the experimental Teraflops Research chip but Xeon Phi is different and based on x86 based P5 architecture. It uses different technologies like intercore communication methods, per-chip power management derived from Teraflops Research Chip and larabee design.
vickybat
I am the night...I am...
There is an interesting catch here.
Starting from "Knights Landing" based Xeon phi, they will not only be a co-processor but also act as a standalone processor.
It can swing both ways i.e act as a multicore cpu or an offload processor when combined with xeon.
It also sports unified memory just like PS4. Its yet to be decided if Intel will go with DDR4 or GDDR5 as a common memory pool.
Intel is mimicking HSA here terming it as "Neo Heterogeneity" Previous xeon-phi's resembled p54c architecture on a per core basis. This one is probably something new. The original P5 design might be modified here.
Some interesting info can be found below:
Intel previews future 'Knights Landing' Xeon Phi x86 coprocessor with integrated memory ? The Register
Intel announces 14nm Knights Landing processor in Xeon Phi update - IT News from V3.co.uk
Starting from "Knights Landing" based Xeon phi, they will not only be a co-processor but also act as a standalone processor.
It can swing both ways i.e act as a multicore cpu or an offload processor when combined with xeon.
It also sports unified memory just like PS4. Its yet to be decided if Intel will go with DDR4 or GDDR5 as a common memory pool.
Intel is mimicking HSA here terming it as "Neo Heterogeneity" Previous xeon-phi's resembled p54c architecture on a per core basis. This one is probably something new. The original P5 design might be modified here.
Some interesting info can be found below:
Intel previews future 'Knights Landing' Xeon Phi x86 coprocessor with integrated memory ? The Register
Intel announces 14nm Knights Landing processor in Xeon Phi update - IT News from V3.co.uk
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You're right. It looks like I mixed up intel's 1st gen MICs with the second gen.
Jaskanwar Singh
Aspiring Novelist
AMD Super Pi History To Be Rewritten, Courtesy Of The Stilt | techPowerUp
Cilus
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Thanks for sharing. Already downloaded and testing. For 1M, my score is 16 second with Super Pi 1.08 @ 4.5 GHz
Jaskanwar Singh
Aspiring Novelist
without that patch how much?
bssunilreddy
Chosen of the Omnissiah
I am particularly interested in Core i5 4440 CPU. When can I expect it to be released?
bssunilreddy
Chosen of the Omnissiah
it's already available on newegg at $199 and Intel cpus don't take much time to show in our markets so you can expect it on this month or next unlike AMD FX 6300 and 4300 which took ages to be available here
How much is FX 6300 and FX 4300 here in India.
