Carlosan Posted November 8, 2012 Report Share Posted November 8, 2012 http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2012/9/26/exclusive-intel-xeon-phi-preferred-pricing-revealed---only-24400-per-card.aspx While the prices of Intel Xeon E5 systems and the Tesla boards were delivered at special but still realistic pricing, we were quite surprised to learn that the computing center only paid around $400 per Xeon Phi board. Given that competing Tesla K20 boards retail for $3199 (available in December), this can be viewed from a price dumping perspective. The Xeon Phi consists of 64 x86 cores (256 threads), each with a 512-bit vector unit. The vector unit can dispatch 8 double precision SIMD operations. The Xeon Phi runs at 2 GHz (more or less, probably more soon) and thus delivers (2 GHz x 64 cores x 8 FLOPs) 1 TFlops. For comparison, a quadcore Haswell at 4 GHz will deliver about one fourth of that in 2013. NVIDIA and AMD GPUs can deliver similar FLOPs, programming the Xeon Phi should be a lot easier to use than CUDA- or OpenCL. The same development tools as for the regular Xeons are available: OpenMP, Intel's Threading Building Blocks, MPI, the Math Kernel Library (MKL) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member pixo Posted November 9, 2012 Advanced Member Report Share Posted November 9, 2012 No more Cuda Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reputable Contributor AbnRanger Posted November 9, 2012 Reputable Contributor Report Share Posted November 9, 2012 No more Cuda Doubt this will change anything in the short term. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member geo_n Posted November 9, 2012 Advanced Member Report Share Posted November 9, 2012 So when can we order? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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