That's right, if you already hired a rock start ninja programmer, soon you will be able to give them the hardware they want as well. Intel's new Knights Landing HPC Phi devices will sell under the unfortunate name of Ninja Development Platform and can be pre-ordered for just under $5000USD for the 72 core desktop model and upwards of $20,000 for a four node racked device. According to the sources that The Register spoke with they will run using CentOS 7.2 and customers will be able to choose the amount and type of memory and local storage they desire. We do not have exact shipping dates yet, but we should see this 14nm silicon soon.
"Intel's fulfilling its 2015 promise to let developers get their hands on a Knights Landing developer platform before the 14 nm HPC silicon reaches general availability."
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What is the WATTS per
What is the WATTS per gigaflop DP FP, and SP FP, compared to Nvidia’s Pascal/Volta and AMDs Polaris/Vega GPU SKUs. Nvidia will have their GPU accelerators on supercomputers/HPC/Servers and IBM’s power9’s while AMD is expected to have its Vega/Greenland GPUs on entirely new server/workstation/HPC APU’s on an interposer based systems with a lot more interposer based wide parallel direct connection fabric between the Zen x86 cores and the Vega/Greenland GPU. AMD’s APU on an interposer based APUs for the HPC/workstation market will offer the most available effective bandwidth between the Zen core complex and the GPU, even more than Nvlink, CAPI, or any PCIe based connection fabric.
The Knights Landing is still not going to be able to beat the Nvidia or AMD GPU SKUs on the flops per watt metric, and AMDs APUs on an interposer will be able to save even more power by having such wide parallel CPU to GPU connection fabrics etched out on the interposer’s silicon substrate, just look at the power savings that HBM memory has relative to DDR RAM, that has to be clocked many times higher than HBM but still does not offer as much effective bandwidth as HBM offers, and HBM2 will double that.
For the HPC/Server market it’s the power usage to flops performed that will matter greatly and for the price of the Knights Landing users will be able to get more value from the Nvidia and AMD offerings. Those KL slivermont cores are not the same as Intel’s other server core offerings, and there may only be some niche uses for the KL among those dependent on the x86 software stack, but the HPC/workstation market runs mostly on Linux and Linux does not have as much dependency to any one CPU ISA. The OpenPower Power8/8+/9 market place is getting the Linux support, and the ARM based market has always had great Linux support as Linux and ARM/Linux evolved together from controllers to the server room for over 4 decades.
The OpenPower licensees are
The OpenPower licensees are going to produce the third party Power8 based systems that will drive server SKU pricing even lower, I just hope that some asian maker, or Nvidia, starts building a power8 based gaming systems. Intel has had control of the server market for far too long, and even AMD’s Zen based APUs on an interposer should get some of the market and fruther reduce Intel’s hold on the server market. Knights landing a little bit too late and a little bit too Larrabee!
“OpenPOWER Gains Support as Inventec, Inspur, Supermicro Develop POWER8-Based Servers”
http://www.anandtech.com/show/10249/openpower-gains-support-as-inventec-inspur-supermicro-develop-power8based-servers
Thank god for righteous
Thank god for righteous companies like AMD and ARM. They do not seek to profit or drive out competition. They are unlike any other business. All of their profits (or in AMD’s case loses) are given back to the people. They piss rainbows and shit sunshine regularly. The Power 8 architecture is made by the next coming of Christ – IBM. Surely these companies will save us from the Devil and his right hand – Intel. Intel kicks hates surprises and puppies and is out to ruin the world with its profit margin. Preach on good soldier. Your lengthy essays posted on this site are sure to spread the good word. We are all pilgrims in this unholy land that Intel has created. AMD and IBM will smite the with their scrupulous business practices and desire to sell their products at zero profit. They truly are god’s gift to the world.
Also go fuck thy self.