Same for the Larabee / Knights architecture. Would sure be fun to play around with a 500 core Knights CPU with a couple TB of optane for LLM inference.
Intel's got an amazing record of axing projects as soon as they've done the hard work of building an ecosystem.
Yup. And high end GPU compute now has on-package HBM like Knight's had a decade ago, and those new Intel CPUs are finally shipping with AVX reliably again. We lost a decade for workloads that would benefit from both.
Same for the Larabee / Knights architecture. Would sure be fun to play around with a 500 core Knights CPU with a couple TB of optane for LLM inference.
Intel's got an amazing record of axing projects as soon as they've done the hard work of building an ecosystem.
> 500 core
The newest fully E-core based Xeon CPUs have reached that figure by now, at least in dual-socket configs.
Yup. And high end GPU compute now has on-package HBM like Knight's had a decade ago, and those new Intel CPUs are finally shipping with AVX reliably again. We lost a decade for workloads that would benefit from both.