Intel Xeon Phi

[George Ioannidis]

Hi Roy,

Are those beasts of any interest for us the Accurenderers? 56 cores for just 1700euros looks like real bargain.

Xeon Phi 3100

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

Yes-- these are very interesting and this product family is something I've been watching for a few years now.  It should be much easier to port the current product over to use something like this than, say, a Tesla GPU.

[pun1407]

but xeon phi is only support opencl now, but I can't know the next version? because the next version can no need cpu to use that.

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

You can't just go out and buy one and hope it runs with nXt-- any version of the thing will likely require some work from my end.  Much easier than porting to a GPU platform, though.  Most of the code will likely run unmodified and all of the current approaches and algorithms will likely still be valid.

[Alfons Akamp]

Ich plane auch die Anschaffung eines neuen Rechners zum rendern.

Soll ich dafür einen schnellen i7 Prozessor mit 6 Kernen oder einen Xeon Phi Prozessor mit 56 Kernen nehmen?

Interessant wäre das schon, aber werden beim rendern in nxt auch wirklich alle 56 Kerne unterstützt? Wer kann mir das genau sagen? Wie sieht die Zukunft von nxt aus?

Werden dann Xeon phi Prozessoren unterstützt?

Alfons