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as mentioned, this was their earlier foray into the graphics market.

This is just a repurposed heatsink because obviously the card was too pitiful to use.  The rest of the card is in a box some where, but they did let some engineering samples slip out

 

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Not what I expected given the title of the video but still very interesting.

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considering that that the card LED lit up it should not be a hardware issue.

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That's... Actually really cool.

I'd love to see what they could do nowadays. I mean, they did that during what, the Nahalem days?

Now I need to watch that GN video on CUDA cores...

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Interesting. I think @LinusTech should do a part 2 where he tests it with a non-UEFI board to see if he can make it work.

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I have confirmation from the "Russian" who owns the other Larrabee prototype that "XXXsh: he says it shows in the system as co-processor" ... that is with booting to video with an IGP or Dedicated other video card.

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1 hour ago, erek said:

I have confirmation from the "Russian" who owns the other Larrabee prototype that "XXXsh: he says it shows in the system as co-processor" ... that is with booting to video with an IGP or Dedicated other video card.

hmm....... do you suggest to put the intel card in the near slot and a regular GPU in the farthest slot to get the coprocessor access functionality of the intel card?

That's a good idea to give that a try!

 

(update)

I've been looking into this a bit more and I "think" ( although may be a long shot here ) that they could have added the ports on purpose as Video_Out and expected that the card would be used on motherboards ( especially those consumers looking to upgrade their hw who have pentium 4's, pentium d's, and core2 duos ) where there are NO VIDEO OUT ports on the motherboard...

 

** more over " I " personally believe (hope rather) the actual consumer purpose that intel was considering was to have the card be used on core i3/i5 motherboards that had no video out ports onboard  "and"  that the types of Core CPUS used would have to have "intel graphics" inside the CPU chip as well.

 

^---- if this were the case then the proper configuration would be to get a motherboard ( actual "intel board" if at all possible and with no video out ports ) and use a core i5 quad core with intel graphics inside.

The only question is if any instruction sets were added to the intel CPU specifically for connecting to and driving this intel pcie card.  because if those instruction sets existed in earlier intel CPU generations then they may have remove these sets from future CPU generations after scraping the project.

 

 

sorry so long winded on my part but I hope that helps :-)

 

p.s. if you get it to turn on and boot to o/s then send it all to me and I'll try to work out the software side of it ( sw takes a while but I will see what i can do ) I'm a software guy and you're the hardware experts!

 

p.s.s. if you do send it to me then i might need some crossed fingers form the entire forum ^_^

 

 

 

 

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LTT guys,

Just use server board to try the card. Don't use desktop ones.

It worked usually in PCI-E x16 slot with PCI videocard, but if your server board has some internal graphics that should be fine.

You can ask your seller if he/she has the debug board for that, it had POST codes indicator and COM port, so you can get its output to the serial console and can read POST codes (remember it has OS inside).

Pre-production samples were really unstable and sometimes died without any reason, so that may be the reason why your seller found it in a trash box.

 

 

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20 hours ago, LAwLz said:

Seems like those would be step 1 and 2 in troubleshooting.

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On ‎14‎/‎05‎/‎2018 at 7:39 PM, nicklmg said:

Buy Intel CPUs on Amazon: http://geni.us/809gd

 

We got our hands on a PROTOTYPE video card from Intel. But does it actually do anything?...

 

 

what about put another working gpu in and use the motherboard with hotswap pcie to see if it shows up Linus?

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@nicklmg @LinusTech

I advise you to enable the option "Above 4G Decoding".

Had a chance to launch a 1st gen Xeon Phi card (6xxx series) on a Xeon D platform, and the mentioned option really helped.

But as already been said, your card might be just a co-processor and you'll need another GPU for video output.

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I had similar problems getting my Xeon Phi card working. Had it to Enable Above 4G Decoding to get it to boot on my workstations.

 

In some other mobos it’s listed as MMIO above 4G or Large BAR support.

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The larrabee accelerator card must be supported by BIOS, same as xeon phi accelerator card, if the BIOS does not support it. The computer will not be started up, so I suggest you finding the same period of C602 motherboard or dual way cpu LGA1366 workstation motherboard and try to use it..all in all,this card is really a PC with a Linux built in.

and then, Linus said this card belongs to knights Corner, and he said it is the same as the 1st gen PCIE Xeon 3/5/7th accelerator card that Tianhe2 uesd. so you d better consider using E5 2600V2/V1 series CPU with double ways C602 server motherboard. I think this motherboard should be usable..  if you can't find drive. Consider using the xeon phi accelerator card drive. it seems like no Windows drive, but the 2rd gen Xeon Phi LGA3467 can Install on Windows,or you use linux.(I,I am sorry for my poor English.)
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probably going to catch a lot of flack for this, but LTT seems to have underhandedly received this from an eBay Auction.   The winner of the actual auction in good faith was Red Falcon.    He was lied to by the seller saying that Intel Lawyers stepped in, and I was told "it's in good hands"

 

 

https://hardforum.com/threads/intel-larrabee-a-prototype.1948986/page-4#post-1043635263

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On 5/15/2018 at 1:13 AM, Kamjam21xx said:

There will probably be a revision video now.

still waiting...

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On 5/14/2018 at 5:00 PM, deadbeef said:

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Linus,

KNC A1s are never intended to be videocards, I think the fact that you have it with some video outputs may just indicate that those ones are either refurbished ones with old PCBs or they just made it out of inertia.

 

I am unable to find my old pictures with real Larabee which as far as I can remember could work only in text mode out-of-box, but I am pretty sure they had black shrouds. Next gen has metal shrouds and then blue ones. So, you are having almost production grade board, you can download the drivers on official Intel site, but they are for calculations only.

 

Here are photos of KNF E0 which was the first add in card Intel admited to be a co-processor, not a videocard :) They are taken in the early 2011.

There's no way this is a KNC that was never intended to be a videocard, the PCB clearly states Larrabee and also "GPU".   Linus is dead wrong in calling this a KNC.

 

 

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Managed to acquire my own Larrabee
 

 

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5 hours ago, erek said:

Managed to acquire my own Larrabee
 

 

Got drivers?

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NOOOOO WAYYY!!! HOOLY SHITTTT. 

 

 

NICE ONEEEEE MAANN!!!!

On 10/9/2018 at 5:52 AM, erek said:

Managed to acquire my own Larrabee
 

 

 

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