clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> Am 30.06.2014 16:22, schrieb Le_Forgeron:
> > Le 30/06/2014 15:44, Warp a écrit :
> >> jhu <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> >>> 72 OoO cores
> >>
> >> What does that mean?
> >>
> > 72 cores, with emoticon (something like "surprised", eyes wide opened,
> > bigger nose than ".")
>
> Probably more like "72 out of order cores" (as indicated by the OP's
> subsequent phrase in parentheses, "compared with current Xeon Phi's in
> order cores").
>
> I just wonder what the hell those 72 cores are useful for if they're all
> defunct :-P

Yes, out of order. Their based on Silvermont cores, so they'll have much faster
single-thread performance than the P5-based cores now. Up to 288 threads! Need
to increase Povray's thread limit yet?

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