On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 9:10 PM, Jed Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > Barry Smith <[email protected]> writes: > > > These results seem reasonable to me. > > > > What makes you think that KNL should be doing better than it does in > comparison to Haswell? > > > > The entire reason for the existence of KNL is that it is a way for > > Intel to be able to "compete" with Nvidia GPUs for numerics and > > data processing, for example in the financial industry. By > > "compete" I mean convince gullible purchasing agents for large > > companies to purchase Intel KNL systems instead of Nvidia GPU > > systems. There is nothing in the hardware specifications of KNL > > that would indicate that it should work better on this type of > > problem than Haswell, in fact the specifications indicate that the > > Haskell should perform better > > Boom! Time to rewrite PETSc in Haskell! >
Yeah, forget this debate about using C++!
