LLVM support for KNL is already in place. So yes, it will come quickly, but in a released version of Julia, that is certainly no earlier than 0.5. It is also quite likely that we need good multi-threading support to ensure a good experience for KNL - which is also happening simultaneously.
I am personally quite excited about the socketable KNL, and the possibilities with Julia. -viral > On 10-Mar-2015, at 11:34 pm, Stefan Karpinski <[email protected]> wrote: > > 0.5 should be released around end of 2015, but there will be support on > master before that. > > On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 2:00 PM, Jeff Waller <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tuesday, March 10, 2015 at 1:39:42 PM UTC-4, Stefan Karpinski wrote: > 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]> 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)? >
