Intel Xeon Phi x200 (Knights Landing) – x86 Code Compatibility – It boots Windows!

[Patrick Kennedy]

We put to rest the question of whether Intel Xeon Phi x200 chips are truly x86 code compatible by booting an unmodified, existing Windows Server 2012 R2 SSD

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[PigLover]

Cute. But isn't that a lot like driving a Ferrari 458 Italia on the Blue Ridge Highway?

(*** see Top Gear Series 16 Episode 8).

 

[Patrick]

Cute. But isn't that a lot like driving a Ferrari 458 Italia on the Blue Ridge Highway?

(*** see Top Gear Series 16 Episode 8).

More like driving a semi-truck at Laguna Seca.

You would be surprised how many questions we get on how code compatible the KNL systems are, even from other major review site editors.

 

[PigLover]

Not sayin' it isn't worth testing or posting - just amused by the idea of running Windows on this beast.

Heck - I'd love to drive the Ferrari no matter what road its on... Just love all the irony's embedded in this.

 

[cesmith9999]

things like this are what Nano server is for...

Chris

 

[gigatexal]

Very cool!

 

[Rain]

The coolest slow* Cinebench run I've ever seen.

* Slow compared to quad 24C CPU beasts:

 

[marcoi]

I'll probably buy one and run Windows on when they hit 200 dollars on eBay.

 

[RobertFontaine]

It's kind of neat that it can run x86 although I suppose we shouldn't be all that surprised given that much of the x86 instruction set has been being translated through to intel's underlying more risc than cisc command set for quite a while. It still made me smile though. I really was expecting busybox at boot.

 

[gbeirn]

I'm curious about the hyperthreading implementation. Since it's the first x86 with >2 threads per core I wonder if there was any optimization on the core level to make better use of the extra threading and if there is a sweet spot similar to Power 8.

 

[badskater]

Personally, i'd like to see if you can run an accelerator like a Tesla with it, just to see if CUDA compatible code would work even better with a system like this...

 

[Samir]

I just found out about this platform and now that it has aged a bit, I'm wondering if anyone has got their hands on one. Seems like it could still hold its own even in today's era of computing.