Re:Intel Announces Knights Mill: A Xeon Phi for Deep Learning
by cs702 on Thursday August 18, 2016 @06:01PM
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"Granted, you do have to bother to make a fast x86 / AVX-512 port of your code."
That is exactly the problem: no one has bothered to make a fast x86 / AVX-512 port for any of the most popular frameworks (at the upstream level, not in some fork), and no one has an incentive to bother, other than Intel. For example, as far as I know, none of the popular frameworks take advantage of Intel's MKL out of the box.
Right now, if you want out-of-the-box high performance, Nvidia hardware is your only practical choice.
That is exactly the problem: no one has bothered to make a fast x86 / AVX-512 port for any of the most popular frameworks (at the upstream level, not in some fork), and no one has an incentive to bother, other than Intel. For example, as far as I know, none of the popular frameworks take advantage of Intel's MKL out of the box.
Right now, if you want out-of-the-box high performance, Nvidia hardware is your only practical choice.