In the short term some options calculations, some other monte carlo calculations. They're all ridiculously parallel. i.e for a whole lot of client data what does a population of simulated clients look like having had the same trades, one by one. I'd have to do a whole lot of anonymisation to hand it out. At the moment I farm it out over some servers - I was wondering about ways to speed it up hence wondering about the xeon phi. The "really difficult to get working" looks depressing. Maybe I stick it on ebay and wait for Knight's Landing I see Stac are working with someone to have a Julia benchmark - that would be more authoritative. Thanks. Kind Regards, John.
On Thursday, November 6, 2014 6:14:51 PM UTC, Viral Shah wrote: > > We had ordered a couple, but they are really difficult to get working. > There is a fair bit of compiler work that is required to get it to work - > so it is safe to assume that this is not coming anytime soon. However, the > Knight's Landing should work out of the box with Julia whenever it comes > and we will most likely have robust multi-threading support by then to > leverage it. > > Out of curiosity, what would you like to run on the Xeon Phi? It may be a > good multi-threading benchmark for us in general. > > -viral > > On Thursday, November 6, 2014 9:35:57 PM UTC+5:30, John Drummond wrote: >> >> Did you have any success? >> There's an offer of the cards for 200usd at the moment >> >> https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/special-promotion-intel-xeon-phi-coprocessor-31s1p >> so I was going to pick one up >> Kind Regards, John. >> On Monday, May 12, 2014 4:45:32 PM UTC+1, Stefan Karpinski wrote: >>> >>> Not that I'm aware of, but we're going to take a crack at this over the >>> summer, so there should be some progress here in the relatively near future. >>> >>> >>> On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Nikolaos <tsakos.w...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Has anyone tried to configure and run julia on an intel xeon phi >>>> coprocessor? >>>> Any hints would be very helpful , how to run parallel on intel's phi >>>> cores. >>>> >>>> Thank you. >>>> >>> >>>