INTRODUCING THE INTEL reg; XEON PHI trade; PROCESSOR - YOUR PATH TO DEEPER INSIGHTPowerful Performance for Deeper Insights Eliminate node bottlenecks, simplify your code modernization, and build on a power-efficient architecture with the Intel reg; Xeon Phi trade; processor, a foundational element of Intel reg; Scalable System Framework. The bootable host processor offers an integrated architecture for powerful, highly parallel performance that will pave your path to deeper insight, innovation, and impact for today #39; #39;s most-demanding High Performance Computing applications, including Machine Learning. Supported by a comprehensive technology roadmap and robust ecosystem, the Intel reg; Xeon Phi trade; processor is a future-ready solution that maximizes your return on investment by using open standards code that are flexible, portable, and reusable.
D**R
This is NOT a co-processor card. This is an SVLCLGA3647/Socket P chip-only.
If you're not sure if you can use this chip or not, you can't. Still five stars because this is exactly what it said it was!I was a fool...but a determined one! I bought this CPU (two, in fact), went searching...and found that there are three, PERHAPS four motherboards in the world that can use these chips. The chips and the boards are all discontinued now, so finding a motherboard for them was a royal pain in the behind. The Supermicro K1SPE board is a 'bootable desktop board' that can use this chip. You'll need the very-Phi-specific CPU water-coolers for it too, because normal '3647' coolers won't fit. The Xeon Gold/Platinum chips have a similar PIN COUNT and socket appearance (sometimes), but they are not the same socket format. Like LGA2011 vs 2011-3. The Phi has different mounting screw pitches and notching on the CPU to prevent use in incompatible boards. There's this K1SPE I used, there's some ASUS server-blade modules, and I THINK the same blade-chassis-mainboard FOR those same blades was able to use a Phi CPU, and that's about IT. If there's anything else that can fit and use it, I haven't discovered it yet.If you WANT a Phi still...well, first, they are discontinued, the whole lot of 'em, CPU and coprocessor-card both. If you still want some (like if you have odd AI coding experiments you want badly-enough to do like I was determined to try) but aren't going to find the one-of-three-motherboards to be able to run it, then look for "Xeon Phi Coprocessor", like the models 7120/7220/5110/3120. There are A and P (3120A/3120P) coprocessor variants. Home users want A's, or they'll need seriously fast airflow in their case/fan mods for the cards. These things get ripping hot and use up to 230 watts or something, and the coprocessor card P variants are 'passive cooling', relying on case-airflow in a rack-server for cooling. The A's have built-in fans.I finally went nuts, bought an old workstation system with the K1SPE in it, and used this chip in it...it boots, it works, but it /also/ cost me several hundred dollars more atop the CPU's price and all that stuff to go with it.Most AI folks would be much better directed to buy a decent video card-based still-supported-if-maybe-older thing like maybe a Tesla K80, or some kind of video card with scads of RAM on it. AI loves memory more than processing speed. For the cost of my motherboard, ECC RAM, PHI cooler, etc, I could have instead bought two or three perfectly-good higher-end GPU cards, or one older workstation-grade GPU-AI card or something. There are edge cases that make this CPU worth using, I'm sure...but if you aren't SURE that you need this CPU-Only processor, then you don't need it, and should check out the co-processor cards or a GPGPU instead.
Trustpilot
3 weeks ago
3 days ago
