How does the Xeon Phi Coprocessor work?

Bobguyawesome · Nov 3, 2017

So I got bored and found this coprocessor that I never knew could ever exist, The Xeon Phi 5110P, so how exactly does it work, Like I heard that you have to have a Xeon to use the coprocessor but like I have a Xeon E5 649 probably too old for that to work, but in general how does the coprocessor work I couldn't really find the information I wanted online which is why i'm asking here, Could it work with an older processor like that, and could it work in any computer that has an open PCIE slot? What processors can work with coprocessor? And what motherboards support this if that's a thing it's restricted to? Thank You!

Rogue Leader · Nov 3, 2017

Its not something that is useful for a home user. These types of co processors are used for massive data crunching such as machine learning, mining, heavy data crunching analytics like protein folding, things like that.

Its not something you can just use with your Xeon, there is specific software that works with it, or you'd need to write such software yourself.

JoeMomma · Nov 3, 2017

Many computer functions are better handled by 1,000's of little processor cores (Like in a graphics card) instead of by a powerful 4-8-12 core CPU. GPU compute or GPGPU (general-purpose computation on graphics processing units) is the utilization of a GPU to perform computation in engineering, digital media and scientific applications traditionally handled by the central processing unit (CPU). Nvidia calls theirs CUDA cores and AMD calls theirs Compute Cores? In order to use those GPU cores the software must be specially written to take advantage of it.

The Xeon Phi GPGPU cards are compute video cards, but they have been designed using the x86 architecture. In that way, theoretically, they are easier to translate CPU code into the code needed by the x86 Xeon Phi. I don't know what motherboards it is compatible with but a GPGPU co-processor like Intel's Xeon or Nvidia's Tesla will do nothing unless your software is written to use it.

Bobguyawesome · Nov 3, 2017

JoeMomma :

Many computer functions are better handled by 1,000's of little processor cores (Like in a graphics card) instead of by a powerful 4-8-12 core CPU. GPU compute or GPGPU (general-purpose computation on graphics processing units) is the utilization of a GPU to perform computation in engineering, digital media and scientific applications traditionally handled by the central processing unit (CPU). Nvidia calls theirs CUDA cores and AMD calls theirs Compute Cores? In order to use those GPU cores the software must be specially written to take advantage of it.

The Xeon Phi GPGPU cards are compute video cards, but they have been designed using the x86 architecture. In that way, theoretically, they are easier to translate CPU code into the code needed by the x86 Xeon Phi. I don't know what motherboards it is compatible with but a GPGPU co-processor like Intel's Xeon or Nvidia's Tesla will do nothing unless your software is written to use it.

Woah, again thank you for clearing this up for me, I wasn't gonna buy one I was just wondering on how this worked, that's truly amazing, Thanks!

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