Without any new plain vanilla processors from Intel, IBM, Fujitsu, AMD, or the relative handful of ARM server chip makers, and with Nvidia launching its Tesla M4 and M40 accelerators aimed at hyperscalers and those looking for cheap single-precision flops ahead of SC15, the “Knights Landing” Xeon Phi chip was pretty much the star of the high performance conference as far as compute is concerned.
We covered the news about the Knights Landing processor from the show, but still learned a few new things from Intel’s executives at the event. We also got to peek at some of the …
Inside Future “Knights Landing” Xeon Phi Systems was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.