> On Apr 4, 2017, at 11:10 PM, Jed Brown <j...@jedbrown.org> wrote: > > Barry Smith <bsm...@mcs.anl.gov> writes: > >> These results seem reasonable to me. >> >> What makes you think that KNL should be doing better than it does in >> comparison to Haswell? >> >> The entire reason for the existence of KNL is that it is a way for >> Intel to be able to "compete" with Nvidia GPUs for numerics and >> data processing, for example in the financial industry. By >> "compete" I mean convince gullible purchasing agents for large >> companies to purchase Intel KNL systems instead of Nvidia GPU >> systems. There is nothing in the hardware specifications of KNL >> that would indicate that it should work better on this type of >> problem than Haswell, in fact the specifications indicate that the >> Haskell should perform better > > Boom! Time to rewrite PETSc in Haskell!
Damn spell checker!