Intel takes wraps off 50-core supercomputing coprocessor plans

http://arstechnica.com/business/new...-50-core-supercomputing-coprocessor-plans.ars

wonder how this compares with Nv's telsa platform.. if intels setup uses less power vs nv it could have something on its hands here. though we did wait for them to release a Larrabee gpu which never happened. i did speculate a long time ago that this was there 100core setup they would go with. as those that remember intel said they were looking to make a HPC 100core setup at 1ghz each. well intel is half way there with a 50core at 22nm, not much longer and they may try for 100 on 22nm, well you would think.

just came across this at intel's site
http://newsroom.intel.com/community...to-lead-industry-to-era-of-exascale-computing

Intel has to show us a competative product before I can get back on their side. AMD and Nvidia both now have 1 to 1.5 year cadences for their architectures.

Personally I think AMD has the clearest path to exascale with Fusion / APUs, but everything will look like that soon. (Trinity looks rediculous, bulldozer + next gen graphics APU)

I wonder how close a knight corner core is to one of the gpu cores in a sandybridge chip.