On Nov 12, 2012, at 6:06 PM, Karl Rupp <rupp at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> Thanks for the link.
> 
> In terms of raw numbers, $2,649 for 320 GB/sec and 8 GB of memory is quite a 
> lot compared to the $500 of a Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition at 288 GB/sec and 3 
> GB memory. My hope is that Xeon Phi can do better than GPUs in kernels 
> requiring frequent global synchronizations, e.g. ILU-substitutions.

   But, but, but it runs the Intel instruction set, that is clearly worth 5+ 
times the price :-)

  Barry

> 
> Best regards,
> Karli

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