Does anyone know what processor this is?

[antoipod]

3 minutes ago, steffeeh said:

"Soooo I just built a gaming and media editing desktop PC"

 

"YOU DID? WOW THATS GREAT, I HAVE THIS SUPERCOMPUTER COMPONENT WORTH OVER $600 PLEASE HAVE IT"

That's basically how it went down.

[TheRandomness]

Just now, NrKj105 said:

but you can always try to find a way ! thats the cool part of pc components !
maybe this could revolutionize video editing ! i mean these amount of cores and teraflops of computing power could be used for something else than "numbercrunching"
 

Yes, create an addon for the program that's optimised to simultaneously use all 57 cores and 228 threads of the card. It'd take too long for any normal programmer, you really need to have a specialist to create the program.

[NrKj105]

nevermind
https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/hpc/Top-5-Xeon-Phi-Misconceptions-508/

[Nikolithebear]

I'd put it up in your room as an awesome peice of tech.  Dont sell it.  

[antoipod]

1 minute ago, NrKj105 said:

nevermind
https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/hpc/Top-5-Xeon-Phi-Misconceptions-508/

That link says it runs an embeded linux os that is loaded on the card, does that mean I can set it as the boot device in my bios and have it work like that?

[Himommies]

1 minute ago, TheRandomness said:

Yes, create an addon for the program that's optimised to simultaneously use all 57 cores and 228 threads of the card. It'd take too long for any normal programmer, you really need to have a specialist to create the program.

Or you know you if your friend can give this to you for free which cost 1695 at launch he can probaly just hire a specialist

[NrKj105]

57 minutes ago, antoipod said:

That link says it runs an embeded linux os that is loaded on the card, does that mean I can set it as the boot device in my bios and have it work like that?

no you have to tcp or protocal it via cmd prmpt
so yeah i think the card is pretty much useless in a video editing normal pc...
 

[TheRandomness]

1 minute ago, Himommies said:

Or you know you if your friend can give this to you for free which cost 1695 at launch he can probaly just hire a specialist

But what would you use it for in the first place? Video editing? Well, get permission from the company to create an addon to use the card, which will cost money, and probably take too long for what it's worth.

[Enderman]

1 minute ago, antoipod said:

That link says it runs an embeded linux os that is loaded on the card, does that mean I can set it as the boot device in my bios and have it work like that?

Uh no.

 

1 minute ago, Himommies said:

Or you know you if your friend can give this to you for free which cost 1695 at launch he can probaly just hire a specialist

You can get them for like $100 on ebay.

Not that you would want one though.

[NrKj105]

but it can be possible if you can create an app that sends cpubound workload off an external network phi card!

[antoipod]

Just now, NrKj105 said:

no you have to tcp or protocal it via cmd prmpt
so yeah i think the card is pretty much useless in a video editing normal pc...
 

Alright, a nice showpiece it is then.

[Himommies]

Just now, TheRandomness said:

But what would you use it for in the first place? Video editing? Well, get permission from the company to create an addon to use the card, which will cost money, and probably take too long for what it's worth.

At this point either sell it;which I imagine will take a long time or frame it and when your friends come over tell them it's a 61 core CPU.At least until like 2020 then you can sell it as a antique

[TheRandomness]

Just now, Himommies said:

At this point either sell it;which I imagine will take a long time or frame it and when your friends come over tell them it's a 61 core CPU.At least until like 2020 then you can sell it as a antique

Well, it's 57C/228T, and selling it would get about $500-600.

[Himommies]

Just now, TheRandomness said:

Well, it's 57C/228T, and selling it would get about $500-600.

Is there really a market for these things,Like I imagine most companies woudn't buy used

[antoipod]

7 minutes ago, TheRandomness said:

Well, it's 57C/228T, and selling it would get about $500-600.

I don't plan on selling it

[mariushm]

To make it easy to understand, short version: 

 

That card is like a computer on a pci-e slot. You plug it in your computer and there's a very simplified Linux starting and using all those processors and you can connect to the card like you would connect to another computer using TeamViewer or Remote Desktop Connection only in just text mode.

You can transfer specially made programs into the card and run them on the card and then transfer the results to your computer like you would download files from another computer to your computer.

The programs have to be build from scratch in such a way as to account for the limitations of the tiny Linux operating system built inside the card, and the programs must be written in a special way to use all the cores and all the threads that the card can use, but the downside is the limited amount of memory so often your programs have to be specially written in such a way as to take small chunks of "work", do them , send the results and clear the memory, download another chunk of work into the card and process it and so on...

 

It may be useful for applications that can have the work split in lots of very very tiny jobs, like for example an 8K image that you have to render with raytracing or some other very accurate methods and which can split the image in 32 x 32 pixel squares and do those independently. Each thread would use little memory and build the whole image.

Could be useful for physics stuff like computing where you may find oil, or doing math on earthquake data or whatever, again stuff that can be split in lots of tiny chunks...,

 

It would be difficult to use with video encoding for example, because most codecs work with larger slices of each frame, like let's say 80-100 slices of 1920x16 pixels for 1920x1080 pictures, and video codecs also have to keep track of up to 10-16 whole pictures which use a lot of memory. maybe more than what this card has.