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.
El sábado, 8 de noviembre de 2014, 18:40:20 (UTC-6), John Drummond escribió: > > 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? >> >> >>>>>
