Intel Xeon Phi

A forum for discussing FAH-related hardware choices and info on actual products (not speculation).

Moderator: Site Moderators

Forum rules
Please read the forum rules before posting.
Locked
PositiveRaisin2
Posts: 14
Joined: Fri Jan 03, 2020 7:53 pm

Intel Xeon Phi

Post by PositiveRaisin2 »

Does a Xeon Phi coprocessor work with folding@home? If so what performance would you expect? They are cheap on ebay.
toTOW
Site Moderator
Posts: 6394
Joined: Sun Dec 02, 2007 10:38 am
Location: Bordeaux, France
Contact:

Re: Intel Xeon Phi

Post by toTOW »

You didn't search very hard before posting, there are already many threads about Xeon Phi on the forum.

Here are two examples :
FAH and Xeon Phi compatibility?
Intel MIC (aka Xeon Phi)
Image

Folding@Home beta tester since 2002. Folding Forum moderator since July 2008.
Joe_H
Site Admin
Posts: 7990
Joined: Tue Apr 21, 2009 4:41 pm
Hardware configuration: Mac Studio M1 Max 32 GB smp6
Mac Hack i7-7700K 48 GB smp4
Location: W. MA

Re: Intel Xeon Phi

Post by Joe_H »

Specifically see this post from the second link - viewtopic.php?f=38&t=21842&start=45#p292905. One person who tried out a Xeon Phi 7210 reported on his experience 2+ years ago.

One caveat, CPU projects that would use as many core threads pretty much have finished. Most, if not all, large projects now go to GPU processing.
Image
Locked