Knights Landing Proves Solid Ground for Intel’s Stake in Deep Learning
Intel has finally opened the first public discussions of its investment in the future of machine learning and deep learning and while some might argue it is a bit late in the game with its rivals...
View ArticleOptimization Tests Confirm Knights Landing Performance Projections
Close to a year ago when more information was becoming available about the Knights Landing processor, Intel released projections for its relative performance against two-socket Haswell machines. …...
View ArticleKnights Landing Will Waterfall Down From On High
With the general availability of the “Knights Landing” Xeon Phi many core processors from Intel last month, some of the largest supercomputing labs on the planet are getting their first taste of what...
View ArticleA Corner to Landing Leap: Xeon Phi Generations Put to Test
A first wave of benchmarks and real-world application runs on Intel’s Knights Landing has hit the shores and while not all the codes will be familiar or widely used, the takeaway of significant...
View ArticleWhy Intel Is Tweaking Xeon Phi For Deep Learning
If there is anything that chip giant Intel has learned over the past two decades as it has gradually climbed to dominance in processing in the datacenter, it is ironically that one size most definitely...
View ArticleJuggling Applications On Intel Knights Landing Xeon Phi Chips
Intel’s many-core “Knights Landing” Xeon Phi processor is just a glimpse of what can be expected of supercomputers in the not-so-distant future of high performance computing. … Juggling Applications On...
View ArticleTuning Up Knights Landing For Gene Sequencing
The Smith-Waterman algorithm has become a linchpin in the rapidly expanding world of bioinformatics, the go-to computational model for DNA sequencing and local sequence alignments. … Tuning Up Knights...
View ArticleEarly Benchmarks on Argonne’s New Knights Landing Supercomputer
We are heading into International Supercomputing Conference week (ISC) and as such, there are several new items of interest from the HPC side of the house. … Early Benchmarks on Argonne’s New Knights...
View ArticleKnights Landing Can Stand Alone—But Often Won’t
It is a time of interesting architectural shifts in the world of supercomputing but one would be hard-pressed to prove that using the mid-year list of the top 500 HPC systems in the world. … Knights...
View ArticleDUG Sets Foundation For Exascale HPC Utility With Xeon Phi
While exascale systems, even at the single precision computational capability commonly used in the oil and gas industry, will cost on the order of $250 million, that cost pales in comparison to the...
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