Intel Xeon Phi Preferred Pricing - Only $400 per Card ? back

(L) [2012/10/05] [tby Dade] [Intel Xeon Phi Preferred Pricing - Only $400 per Card ?] Wayback!

This news has been posted by A-man on LuxRender forum: [LINK http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2012/9/26/exclusive-intel-xeon-phi-preferred-pricing-revealed---only-24400-per-card.aspx]
If a comparable price will be used for the final version, I will buy one the day it is available.

(L) [2012/10/06] [tby sirpalee] [Intel Xeon Phi Preferred Pricing - Only $400 per Card ?] Wayback!

400? April 1st is still far away.

(L) [2012/10/08] [tby hobold] [Intel Xeon Phi Preferred Pricing - Only $400 per Card ?] Wayback!

It is not uncommon for big companies to "subsidize" the occasional prestigious project. While I am pretty sure that Intel would still make profit at $400, I strongly suspect they will want to milk their early adopters for much more.

(L) [2012/11/13] [tby Dade] [Intel Xeon Phi Preferred Pricing - Only $400 per Card ?] Wayback!

According this article ([LINK http://techreport.com/news/23884/intel-joins-the-data-parallel-computing-fraternity-with-xeon-phi]), Xeon Phi should be released for customers from January 28, 2013.

(L) [2012/11/13] [tby hobold] [Intel Xeon Phi Preferred Pricing - Only $400 per Card ?] Wayback!

And c't magazine reports a price of 2649 US$.
[LINK http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/SC12-Intel-bringt-Coprozessor-Xeon-Phi-offiziell-heraus-1747942.html]

(L) [2012/11/13] [tby Dade] [Intel Xeon Phi Preferred Pricing - Only $400 per Card ?] Wayback!

>> hobold wrote:And c't magazine reports a price of 2649 US$.
[LINK http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/SC12-Intel-bringt-Coprozessor-Xeon-Phi-offiziell-heraus-1747942.html]
Same information confirmed here: [LINK http://www.techpowerup.com/175411/Intel-Delivers-New-Architecture-for-Discovery-with-Intel-Xeon-Phi-Coprocessors.html]

(L) [2012/11/13] [tby toxie] [Intel Xeon Phi Preferred Pricing - Only $400 per Card ?] Wayback!

I wonder how easy it will be to get complex programs running on this "efficiently". How is the supposed way currently? What does Intel recommend for programming these boards?

(L) [2012/11/13] [tby ingenious] [Intel Xeon Phi Preferred Pricing - Only $400 per Card ?] Wayback!

>> toxie wrote:I wonder how easy it will be to get complex programs running on this "efficiently". How is the supposed way currently? What does Intel recommend for programming these boards?
_mm512_mul_ps() FTW!  [SMILEY :mrgreen:]

(L) [2012/11/13] [tby toxie] [Intel Xeon Phi Preferred Pricing - Only $400 per Card ?] Wayback!

I don't know if i would want to redo a several 10000 line of code project via intrinsics (even if hidden within C++ wizardry).. [SMILEY ;)]

(L) [2012/11/13] [tby mpeterson] [Intel Xeon Phi Preferred Pricing - Only $400 per Card ?] Wayback!

>> toxie wrote:I don't know if i would want to redo a several 10000 line of code project via intrinsics (even if hidden within C++ wizardry)..
i am working with that crap since two years now. no complex algo can fill the __m512 registers over time. so you have to go
with one of the > 200 threads and trust the compiler (great inorder stuff [SMILEY :-)] ). you can expect the same disaster as we have
already today with gpus.