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Drakhain

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Has someone tried the xeon phi?
« on: February 05, 2015, 03:58:00 AM »
Hello,
Just by curiosity, has anyone ever tested photoscan with it, and is it good compared to a gpu ?
Thank you

dtmcnamara

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Re: Has someone tried the xeon phi?
« Reply #1 on: February 05, 2015, 04:21:16 AM »
My new X99 workstation board just arrived and I will be testing a Phi card later this month. The biggest thing with the Xeon Phi cards are that you need a Xeon CPU and a workstation motherboard that supports "Above 4G Decoding" to allow PCIe co-processors. Only certain motherboards support this setup so evern if they work just make sure you know how to setup the allocation of RAM to a PCIe device.

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Re: Has someone tried the xeon phi?
« Reply #2 on: February 05, 2015, 04:36:04 AM »
Thank your for the details. I didn't know these, i was considering an already built workstation (thinkmate for now).
Glad to know you'll do some tests, thank you.

Andrei

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Re: Has someone tried the xeon phi?
« Reply #3 on: January 19, 2016, 10:18:11 PM »
So, did you test the Intel Phi ? How does it perform?