Comments on: The End Of Xeon Phi – It’s Xeon And Maybe GPUs From Here https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/07/27/end-of-the-line-for-xeon-phi-its-all-xeon-from-here/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Mon, 18 Mar 2019 16:11:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Dmitry Litkins https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/07/27/end-of-the-line-for-xeon-phi-its-all-xeon-from-here/#comment-101510 Tue, 07 Aug 2018 16:41:20 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=38031#comment-101510 Fully disagree, we are deep in research for crypto mining manipulations.
Three weeks ago got a designed Xeon Phi 7210 racks. August 7th 2018, $20 profit minus $2.7 consumption on $0.10 per kWh 1170w, $500 per month with a cost of $3650.
All due we have made ASIC algo miners for argon2d and yesscrypt.

Was hard to get, due hand made only, minimum order $100k

]]> By: Steve Casselman https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/07/27/end-of-the-line-for-xeon-phi-its-all-xeon-from-here/#comment-101029 Mon, 30 Jul 2018 01:00:25 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=38031#comment-101029 You didn’t mention FPGAs. They are so much more efficient than CPU cores. They are in the HPC mix for sure. There many algorithms were a CPU core is a big waste of power and performance. As soon as a FPGA manufacture lets the world understand the bitstream instead of hiding it people will realize the true power of FPGA based computing. Imagine if Intel would not tell anyone what the instruction set of a device was. There would be no GCC compilers, no MSVC no Portland Group compilers. There would be only Intel compilers with no pressure to improve performance and no real innovation. That’s where FPGAs are at. When that mold gets broken FPGA will dominate the data center.

]]> By: peter j connell https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/07/27/end-of-the-line-for-xeon-phi-its-all-xeon-from-here/#comment-100972 Sat, 28 Jul 2018 19:15:28 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=38031#comment-100972 And perf/$ is?

Its all very well, but amd zen fabric architecture, now has a product spread from a single 4 core ccx on an apu, to a pair of ccx on desktop am4 cpuS, 4 in a workstation, 8 in a server and 16 in a dual socket, and inevitably, 32 in a quad socket server in time.

thats currently up to 64 cores, yet all based on the same; cheap, efficient, mass produced lego block chiplet – the 4 core ccx core complex.

exciting stuff that has the world agog.

But wait, out of the blue at computex, these numbers of ccxS have have now doubled as we see initially in TR, and these new cpus run fine on existing platforms.

The eye glazing intel products discussed seem customised expensive ~monolithics for low volume high price.

Having the best unit becomes irrelevant once you can team units. The issue becomes, which team does the job cheapest?

Quantity has a quality all of its own, as they say.

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