Intel's Knights Landing — 72 Cores, 3 Teraflops

New submitter asliarun writes "David Kanter of Realworldtech recently posted his take on Intel's upcoming Knights Landing chip. The technical specs are massive, showing Intel's new-found focus on throughput processing (and possibly graphics). 72 Silvermont cores with beefy FP and vector units, mesh fabric with tile based architecture, DDR4 support with a 384-bit memory controller, QPI connectivity instead of PCIe, and 16GB on-package eDRAM (yes, 16GB). All this should ensure throughput of 3 teraflop/s double precision. Many of the architectural elements would also be the same as Intel's future CPU chips — so this is also a peek into Intel's vision of the future. Will Intel use this as a platform to compete with nVidia and AMD/ATI on graphics? Or will this be another Larrabee? Or just an exotic HPC product like Knights Corner?"

Comments

Re:Yay more cores that I won't be using much of!

[H0p313ss]

Because you can never have too many cores that you aren't using most of the time.

How about more speed? Or is that too hard?

Pretty sure it wasn't meant for you (or me).

However, for servers, including hypervisors, it would be very interesting. There are lots of client/server products that scale better with more cores.