[SemiAccurate] Intel Details Knights Corner Architecture At Long Last

[blastingcap]

http://semiaccurate.com/2012/08/28/intel-details-knights-corner-architecture-at-long-last/

Literally the bottom line:

"Knights Corner may not have the peak numbers of a GPU, but it looks to be far more accessible in the real world than anything that has come before it.S|A"

 

[gorobei]

if the performance is anywhere near a first gen tesla/fermi card, this could be very bad for nvidia's hpc aspirations. native x86 and tcp/ip would reduce the gpgpu customers to a very narrow market of those who explicitly need the peak performance of a gpu vs a linux farm on a chip like KC.

 

[BrightCandle]

As a developer I prefer the Intel approach so far. I would still rather have the os be aware of the different performance cores and allow me the programmer to hint where I want it run but a cluster on a card is a better step than open cl which frankly is awful.