intel Phi Coprocessor

[timb]

Will Keyshot use the new intel Phi Coprocessor?  If so, what sort of performance increase might we see? 

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It may look like a GPU compute card, but the Intel Xeon Phi actually contains over 500 CPU cores, heralding the future of Intel

[guest84672]

Certainly.

[toffmon]

just askin this question again, so it will work?

if i have a workstation with a Xeon main CPU and a Phi card in it, it will recognize the PHI with the default version, no extra license necessary?

curious

[KeyShot]

Not yet.

[DriesV]

Meanwhile on the Xeon Phi front...

Some very interesting roadmaps seeping through from SC13.
Apparantly the next generation Xeon Phi chip (Knights Landing) will be a standalone processor (aka CPU!). No more add-on cards. Memory on package + accessibility of full system memory.
http://www.engadget.com/2013/11/24/intel-knights-landing-details/
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2064920/intel-rushes-to-exascale-with-redesigned-supercomputing-chip.html
Early performance numbers seem to indicate massive computing power. Yes, that's 72 cores or 288 threads on one chip!

Deathblow for GPGPU?
Holy grail for rendering?
How will this affect KeyShot's per-core licensing model for network rendering?

Dries

[PhilippeV8]

So with a twin core motherboard you can get 576 threads ... ?  That's 36 times what I got now .. 2500 fps ? :p

[DriesV]

And what about a quad socket server?
That's 1152 threads...

That's 24 TFLOP, compared to way less than 1 TFLOP for a current top of the line dual Xeon E5.

Dries

[DriesV]

Also, the current generation Xeon Phi products are about 1.8 times faster in raytracing than a high-end dual Xeon E5 server, according to Intel data.

The next generation Xeon Phi CPU will be about 2.5 times faster than the current Xeon Phi. That's 4.5 times faster in rendering than a dual Xeon E5. That's about 750 fps -theoretically- in KeyShot's camera benchmark!

Dries

[PhilippeV8]

With 1152 threads... forget about rendering ... just hit the screenshot button allright 

[mafrieger]

XEON phi support would be indeed very interesting!!