The Intel Xeon Phi 512-bit Coprocessor

The other day I was thinking about the enormous power afforded Linux with 64-bit processing. You know the same architecture that drove Super Computers through-out the 70′s and 80′s. The very same architecture you can purchase for your Windows Desktop today, for whatever reason, I’m not sure of.

A 64-bit register can store over 18 quintillion different values. Throw in a few “Yodabytes” of RAM and you are off to the races. To give you an example of this awesome power consider the following:

32bit allows 4 gigs of memory
64bit allows 18,000,000,000 gigs of memory
128bit allows 3×10^11 gigs of memory

So we ain’t going to be seeing anything in 128-bit architecture until the sun is a red giant. So it only stands to reason that Intel should step in and throw a monkey-wrench into the mix with it’s “Intel Xeon Phi 512-bit Coprocessor“. Don’t ask; I won’t tell; I’ve already run out of fingers and toes! You will have to do the math yourself.

All I do know is that as long as the behavior of the vector pack instructions is good to go and the compiler extensions to force memory alignment boundaries in C and C++ tools holds as advertised, then galaxy MACS0647-JD is well within reach for anyone to visit …… tonight!

And I can’t get Windows to boot!

Lead-on Intel, I’m not sure where or why anyone would ever need your Xeon Phi 512-bit Coprocessor, however, I bet Photoshop and Halo 421 would look pretty cool though …… if Windows will boot!