[petsc-users] Configuring PETSc for KNL

[Barry Smith]

> On Apr 4, 2017, at 11:10 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!

  Damn spell checker!