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From: jhu
Subject: Xeon Phi available on Amazon
Date: 30 Apr 2013 14:15:01
Message: <web.518009614c4f5a8f4dadbc10@news.povray.org>
for $2700! So who's willing to plunk down the cash to test Povray on this thing?

BTW, it's an addon card with 64 x86 processors on it. Apparently programming
this thing is the same as programming any other x86 computer.

Here's some benchmarks comparisons between Xeon Phi and NVidia Tesla:

 http://goprallel.sourceforge.net/independent-test-xeon-phi-shocks-tesla-gpu/


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From: Kenneth
Subject: Re: Xeon Phi available on Amazon
Date: 30 Apr 2013 17:50:00
Message: <web.51803c28bf434ff9c2d977c20@news.povray.org>
"jhu" <nomail@nomail> wrote:

> Here's some benchmarks comparisons between Xeon Phi and NVidia Tesla:
>
>  http://goprallel.sourceforge.net/independent-test-xeon-phi-shocks-tesla-gpu/

That link pulls up a 404 error. Is there a typo in it? I tried searching
sourceforge.net itself, but no luck either.


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From: Jörg 'Yadgar' Bleimann
Subject: Re: Xeon Phi available on Amazon
Date: 30 Apr 2013 17:52:46
Message: <51803d2e$1@news.povray.org>
Hi(gh)!

On 30.04.2013 20:11, jhu wrote:

> BTW, it's an addon card with 64 x86 processors on it. Apparently programming
> this thing is the same as programming any other x86 computer.
>
> Here's some benchmarks comparisons between Xeon Phi and NVidia Tesla:

Does POV-Ray 3.7 in fact support real-time raytracing? That would be new 
to me...

See you in Khyberspace!

Yadgar


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From: Christian Froeschlin
Subject: Re: Xeon Phi available on Amazon
Date: 30 Apr 2013 18:08:58
Message: <518040fa$1@news.povray.org>
Kenneth wrote:

>>  http://goprallel.sourceforge.net/independent-test-xeon-phi-shocks-tesla-gpu/
> 
> That link pulls up a 404 error. Is there a typo in it? I tried searching
> sourceforge.net itself, but no luck either.

try goparallel instead of goprallel ;)


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From: James Holsenback
Subject: Re: Xeon Phi available on Amazon
Date: 30 Apr 2013 20:16:53
Message: <51805ef5@news.povray.org>

> Hi(gh)!
>
> On 30.04.2013 20:11, jhu wrote:
>
>> BTW, it's an addon card with 64 x86 processors on it. Apparently
>> programming
>> this thing is the same as programming any other x86 computer.
>>
>> Here's some benchmarks comparisons between Xeon Phi and NVidia Tesla:
>
> Does POV-Ray 3.7 in fact support real-time raytracing? That would be new
> to me...

http://wiki.povray.org/content/Documentation:Windows_Section_1#Real-Time_Raytracing


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From: jhu
Subject: Re: Xeon Phi available on Amazon
Date: 30 Apr 2013 21:45:01
Message: <web.5180731bbf434ff9aaab25e0@news.povray.org>
"Kenneth" <kdw### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> "jhu" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
>
> > Here's some benchmarks comparisons between Xeon Phi and NVidia Tesla:
> >
> >  http://goprallel.sourceforge.net/independent-test-xeon-phi-shocks-tesla-gpu/
>
> That link pulls up a 404 error. Is there a typo in it? I tried searching
> sourceforge.net itself, but no luck either.

Oops! Typo.

http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/independent-test-xeon-phi-shocks-tesla-gpu/


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From: Le Forgeron
Subject: Re: Xeon Phi available on Amazon
Date: 1 May 2013 03:27:47
Message: <5180c3f3@news.povray.org>
Le 30/04/2013 20:11, jhu nous fit lire :
> for $2700! So who's willing to plunk down the cash to test Povray on this thing?
> 
> BTW, it's an addon card with 64 x86 processors on it. Apparently programming
> this thing is the same as programming any other x86 computer.
> 
> Here's some benchmarks comparisons between Xeon Phi and NVidia Tesla:
> 
>  http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/independent-test-xeon-phi-shocks-tesla-gpu/
> 
> 
The parallel test Phi vs Cuda is unrealistic when expanding to povray:
Phi test (and Cuda test) all use many core, local data (small size).

Povray would use many core, global data (huge, the scene): the
bottleneck is going to be the memory bus.


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From: waggy
Subject: Re: Xeon Phi available on Amazon
Date: 1 May 2013 10:15:00
Message: <web.51812332bf434ff921be1230@news.povray.org>
"jhu" wrote:
> for $2700! So who's willing to plunk down the cash to test Povray on this thing?
>
> BTW, it's an addon card with 64 x86 processors on it. Apparently programming
> this thing is the same as programming any other x86 computer.

From what I've tried, it's similar to cross-compiling. Unfortunately, POV-Ray's
make file doesn't seem friendly to cross-compiling. I have access to machines
with one or two Phis installed, and expect to try getting POV-Ray to run on the
coprocessors this summer. If successful, I'll post the results.


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From: clipka
Subject: Re: Xeon Phi available on Amazon
Date: 1 May 2013 11:43:59
Message: <5181383f$1@news.povray.org>
Am 01.05.2013 16:14, schrieb waggy:
> "jhu" wrote:
>> for $2700! So who's willing to plunk down the cash to test Povray on this thing?
>>
>> BTW, it's an addon card with 64 x86 processors on it. Apparently programming
>> this thing is the same as programming any other x86 computer.
>
>  From what I've tried, it's similar to cross-compiling. Unfortunately, POV-Ray's
> make file doesn't seem friendly to cross-compiling. I have access to machines
> with one or two Phis installed, and expect to try getting POV-Ray to run on the
> coprocessors this summer. If successful, I'll post the results.

Looking forward to it.


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