If you are thinking about getting a system for doing development work targeting the Intel Xeon Phi and you hesitated because of the additional cost of the Intel developer tools you would need then, you should get a system with the “Xeon Phi developers starter kit”. The savings on the Intel tools can completely offset the cost of the base system. It’s a serious bargain!
Can you use the new RHEL/CentOS 6.5 release with the Xeon Phi … yes! But, there is a gotcha that we will need to work around. Read on.
Can you fly with a computer (not laptop) in your carry-on bag. Sure! With some restrictions of course…
Will the Xeon Phi work in an X8 mode slot? If so, will the performance degrade? Yes and yes!
Windows users don’t get a lot of love from the HPC community but, hey!, they have serious compute heavy programs to run too. … and they are desperate for performance!
Yes, you can use a Xeon Phi on a Windows system!
Many people have heard about the Intel Xeon Phi by now but there is still a lot of misunderstanding about it. Here’s 5 of the misconceptions that I’ve heard mentioned when discussing the Xeon Phi.
Some more advice if you are looking at (or having trouble with) motherboards for the Xeon Phi.
Some quick benchmarking using the Intel MKL double precision Linpack benchmark shows Haswell to have the potential to be a stellar performer for floating point heavy code.
Want to try your hand at programming the Intel Xeon Phi? Think a card will work in your existing system? …probably not!
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