[petsc-users] Configuring PETSc for KNL

[Richard Mills]

On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 9:10 PM, Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> wrote:

> Barry Smith <bsmith at 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!
>

Yeah, forget this debate about using C++!
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