On Tuesday, March 10, 2015 at 1:39:42 PM UTC-4, Stefan Karpinski wrote:
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> I'm not sure what that would mean – CPUs don't ship with software. Julia
> will support Kinght's Landing, however, although it probably won't do so
> until version 0.5.
>
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 1:36 PM, Karel Zapfe <[email protected]
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Hello:
>>
>> Is it true then, that Knight's Landing will have Julia out-of-the-box? I
>> was checking the page of Intel, but found nothing to the respect. At my
>> laboratory we had some extra money, and were considering on getting one,
>> but the point is that none of us is really good at using fortran+mpi or
>> c+mpi, so with Julia most of us non-programers-but-researchers could have
>> hope of really using it.
>>
>
Knight's Landing is not supposed to be available until Q2 which strictly
speaking, I guess is just a couple of weeks but I would have expected to
see some big announce. Maybe it won't really be readily available with
(non-reference) motherboards until summer? do you expect dev 0.5 by say
July (kinda like last year)?
