http://www.colfax-intl.com/nd/xeonphi/31s1p-promo.aspx is a link from a distributor. Presumably Intel are trying to encourage the growth of the use, also with knight's landing turning up and they made a lot of them. In lots of 10 they're selling at 125 usd each.
On Saturday, November 8, 2014 7:20:17 AM UTC, Jeff Waller wrote: > > > > On Thursday, November 6, 2014 1:14:51 PM UTC-5, Viral Shah wrote: >> >> We had ordered a couple, but they are really difficult to get working. >> There is a fair bit of compiler work that is required to get it to work - >> so it is safe to assume that this is not coming anytime soon. However, the >> Knight's Landing should work out of the box with Julia whenever it comes >> and we will most likely have robust multi-threading support by then to >> leverage it. >> > > Aww! > > >> >> Out of curiosity, what would you like to run on the Xeon Phi? It may be a >> good multi-threading benchmark for us in general. >> > > Something that requires 1TFlop, or maybe 1000 things that take 1 GFlop? > > Hmm, how about realtime photogrammetry? > > >> >> -viral >> >> On Thursday, November 6, 2014 9:35:57 PM UTC+5:30, John Drummond wrote: >>> >>> Did you have any success? >>> There's an offer of the cards for 200usd at the moment >>> >> > That's like 1/10th the price? > > >>>>
