XBitlabs: Intel Shows Off "Knights Corner" MIC Compute Accelerator, Beats Nvidia's Fe

[Nemesis 1]

Chip: Intel Larrabee
Timeframe: 2009
Process Node: unknown, assumed 45nm
Power: unknown
Cores: 32-64 x86 derived from P54C Pentium
Performance: claimed 1 teraflop single precision on SGEMM
Commercial Availability: None
Status: Terminated
Purpose: GPGPU, graphics acceleration

Chip: Intel Knight's Ferry
Timeframe: 2011
Process Node: 22nm
Power: unknown
Cores: 50+ x86, possibly derived from Larrabee
Performance: claimed 1 teraflop double precision on DGEMM
Commercial Availability: planned availability in 2012 or later as Knight's Corner, planned into be placed into 10 petaflop TACC supercomputer in 2013
Status: ongoing
Purpose: high performance computing

Never ever happened this way at all . Larrabbe Became nights ferry . It wasn't dropped it morphed into another product. Nights ferry was on the 45nm process same as larrabbee because it was larrabbee. / The first 22nm product is nights corner which the public may buy on release.

 

[acx]

Never ever happened this way at all . Larrabbe Became nights ferry . It wasn't dropped it morphed into another product. Nights ferry was on the 45nm process same as larrabbee because it was larrabbee. / The first 22nm product is nights corner which the public may buy on release.

Whether it was dropped or renamed or morphed into another product, there will never be a chip named Larrabee in production. The ideas behind Larrabee architecture may have continued on and evolved to become Intel MIC architecture. I've updated the post to fix Knight's Ferry and add Knight's Corner entries.

The list is intended to be for chips and not for architectures or projects. Chips being terminated doesn't mean the project died and the engineers and ideas behind the chip vanished into thin air. Terminated means that the chip has ceased or never saw commercial production. All chips eventually get terminated but many of the ideas behind chips that are terminated continue to evolve and find life in future chips.

 

[Nemesis 1]

Ya . I know all this . Whats your point? Knights corner will be a good chip for intels first commerical HPC . As for all the other assumed responsonses that these will never be used as graphics chips that may be true . But with AVX/Larrabbee language FMA3 I think we can expect to see These chips to be used as a big part of graghics in Intel systems . With AMDs move it looks like they decided to follow intel.

 

[aigomorla]

That makes no sense to me either. Obviosly a brand new cutting edge chip on a brand new process will beat a 2+ year old tech chip made with a even older process, i mean no crap it beats it why announce it like its a good thing.

Thats like saying a 2012 BMW M8 beats a 2007 BMW 330i, well no crap i would hope in 3 years you could improve tech.

fix'd... lol...

Intel's been playing with 1TeraFlop long b4 Nvidia got big enough to play outside of GPU's.

Chip: Intel Knight's Ferry
Timeframe: 2011
Process Node: 22nm
Power: unknown
Cores: 50+ x86, possibly derived from Larrabee
Performance: claimed 1 teraflop double precision on DGEMM
Commercial Availability: planned availability in 2012 or later as Knight's Corner, planned into be placed into 10 petaflop TACC supercomputer in 2013
Status: ongoing
Purpose: high performance computing accelerator

HOLY...10 peta?
Thats 10 road runners...

Wait RIKEN is already 10 Peta?

Man.... talk about super computers...

 

[tviceman]

Let me know when Intel ships a product that is competitive vs. whatever Nvidia's latest and greatest at the time will be.

http://www.dailytech.com/NVIDIA+Tesla+GPUs+Power+Worlds+Greenest+Supercomputer/article23357.htm
http://venturebeat.com/2011/10/11/o...and-nvidia-chips-for-huge-cray-supercomputer/

Until then, we will continue getting used to seeing headlines like these.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

That makes no sense to me either. Obviosly a brand new cutting edge chip on a brand new process will beat a 2+ year old tech chip made with a even older process, i mean no crap it beats it why announce it like its a good thing.

Someone forgot about Bulldozer