[petsc-dev] http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2012-11-12/intel_brings_manycore_x86_to_mar ket_with_knights_corner.html

[Satish Balay]

On Mon, 12 Nov 2012, Karl Rupp 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.

for comaprision the tesla 2090 we have costed over 3k each - and provides 177 GB/sec [with 6GB ram]

http://www.nvidia.com/object/tesla-servers.html

satish