Intel Unveils 72-Core x86 Knights Landing CPU for Exascale Supercomputing

[Boomstick777]

It seems when computing does make a technological advancement, sometimes it’s a big step in the next evolution of the game. Knights Landing, which sounds like a daytime TV show name starring David Hasslehoff, is Intel’s next “ante up” in the game of technology so I know some will be disappointed ☺. The Knights Landing platform is based on Intel’s next generation Xeon Phi supercomputing chip that can contain up to 72 out-of-order cores. The biggest alteration to the design is that in lieu of a slot design that must be paired-up with a standard Xeon CPU, the new Knights Landing is a standalone processor that will easier to integrate and expand upon

http://www.techoftomorrow.com/2013/...ghts-landing-cpu-for-exascale-supercomputing/

 

[Stas823]

No doubt costs more money than there is in existence

 

[Lartyconshayo]

pay with bitcoin

 

[EdgeDs]

Hows bf4 on this?

 

[Hotwired]

Hows bf4 on this?

Dunno, never seen someone play BF4 on an atom based computer.

 

[joeyjojo]

So they've broken away from the expansion card model (Tesla, original Phi) and are releasing a self-contained compute unit with its own CPU and memory? That's genius.

The conventional motherboard + CPU + memory makes sense for a PC but has always been unnecessary for supercomputers (waste of space) when all you really want is an arbitrary number of compact compute units (i.e. no PCI sockets, SATA ports, etc.). Adding a CRAY interconnect is also very smart.

Funny that they went for Atom processors though. Gives them excellent FLOPS/W I suppose.

 

[Spektor]

Hows bf4 on this?

Crashes a lot I'd imagine.