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  • mevans336 - Tuesday, November 18, 2014 - link

    What are the applications for this outside of the HPC market? Can I build a system with one of these and deploy a Windows or Linux private cloud on it?
  • nevertell - Tuesday, November 18, 2014 - link

    You'd run out of memory and the single core performance is abysmal. I don't believe that every single core on these can work in it's own context. And even if it did, the perf would not be enough to run a VM instance or a container instance for your regular cloud client.
  • DanNeely - Tuesday, November 18, 2014 - link

    Since they're using silvermont cores this time around, the not enough single core performance argument doesn't hold; but it remains to be seen if they're providing the rest of the support framework needed to run an OS on each core. OTOH if the huge number of tiny arm servers in a box platform actually does show signs of taking off, something like this would probably be most of the way to giving Intel an off the shelf competitor.
  • xenol - Wednesday, November 19, 2014 - link

    Couldn't you have the host processor run the VM manager itself, while each of these little cores (or two) run a lightweight Linux client?

    But as you said, the Phi is probably not even built for that.
  • andychow - Friday, November 28, 2014 - link

    I'm also very curious about this. It says "bootable processor", so I imagine there must be a way to boot an OS off the little cores. It's really weird, I look and look and I know nothing about this product, what it's used for, what it can do. So now I know that some successor is going to come out at 10nm, but still don't know what the product can do, use cases, etc.
  • vred - Tuesday, November 18, 2014 - link

    Bootable processor in 2015! Now that is interesting.
  • witeken - Tuesday, November 18, 2014 - link

    The 14nm Atom Tick is actually called Airmont, not Silvermont.
  • MrSpadge - Tuesday, November 18, 2014 - link

    As far as I know Intel have referred to them as Silvermont cores themselves. Airmont might bring minor architectural changes, which might not be included in Knights Landing (to speed up time to market). This would be similar to how Ivy is more than a straight die shrink of Sandy, despite it being "just a Tick".
  • Morawka - Wednesday, November 19, 2014 - link

    airmont will be out waay sooner than you think. in the next year AFAIK. Supposedly it increases IPC 100%
  • Samus - Tuesday, November 18, 2014 - link

    10nm!?
  • name99 - Tuesday, November 18, 2014 - link

    Damn, Charlie Demerjian wasn't kidding...

    http://semiaccurate.com/2014/11/17/intel-talks-kni...
  • MadMan007 - Tuesday, November 18, 2014 - link

    I read it hoping for something interesting, but expecting the usual empty Charlie drivel. My expectations were met, my hopes were not.
  • nicolapeluchetti - Tuesday, November 18, 2014 - link

    There doesn't seem too much to talk about or to be excited about in this anandtech article too, don't you think?
  • TiGr1982 - Tuesday, November 18, 2014 - link

    I suppose, the blue label guys does not really disclose any info on next gen of Knights * not because they have nothing to say/show, but because they experience tough competition with green label guys in the field of massively parallel compute accelerators (e.g., first top500 is taken by blue label team for a while, but then follows the green label team). So, Charlie's moronic stream of consciousness does not apply. Intel in total is a multi-billion hi-tech business, and not a hi-tech fair in the first place, after all.
  • mhampton - Wednesday, November 19, 2014 - link

    They should have called it Omniknight.

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