Planned support for Intel Xeon Phi?

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John Chodera
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Planned support for Intel Xeon Phi?

Post by John Chodera » Tue Mar 19, 2013 11:42 am

Hi!

Is support for Intel Xeon Phi planned?

TACC Stampede is now operational, and features Dell PowerEdge C8220 nodes with Xeon Phi coprocessors:

http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/resources/hpc

John
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Peter Eastman
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Re: Planned support for Intel Xeon Phi?

Post by Peter Eastman » Wed Mar 20, 2013 1:00 pm

We do hope to support it eventually, although we haven't specifically looked into it yet. We don't have a processor to test on yet.

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Re: Planned support for Intel Xeon Phi?

Post by Maxim Imakaev » Thu Sep 18, 2014 9:43 am

Hi Peter,

Were there any updates with running OpenMM on Xeon Phi?

Thanks,
Max
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Re: Planned support for Intel Xeon Phi?

Post by Peter Eastman » Thu Sep 18, 2014 11:26 am

We spent quite a while working on Xeon Phi support, but were never able to get acceptable performance out of it. It's possible that a future version of the hardware will work better. But on the hardware we had, you were better off ignoring the Xeon Phi and just running on the CPU.

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