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!

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!
What’s in a name … the Intel Xeon *Phi* ?