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Chaos Corona for 3ds Max => [Max] General Discussion => Topic started by: zacuttialberto on 2017-12-04, 07:06:55

Title: Xeon phi info
Post by: zacuttialberto on 2017-12-04, 07:06:55

Hello to everyone

i just saw this intresting news, and where is indicated that intel embree (which is base code of corona) is optimize to work on intel xepn phi..
So it is so complex code corona to work also on this card?
it will be much easier date a pci express card instead the whole workstation.

thank you for an answer.

chears

Title: Re: Xeon phi info
Post by: Juraj on 2017-12-04, 09:45:08

Xeon Phi (as pci-e card) is very much dead.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/11769/intel-discontinues-xeon-phi-7200-series-knights-landing-coprocessor-cards

Title: Re: Xeon phi info
Post by: Ryuu on 2017-12-04, 10:11:51

This has been discussed few times already (just search for "Xeon Phi" here on the forum). Xeon Phi is basically something between CPU and GPU and for us it seems to have the worst of both worlds. We don't plan to support Xeon Phi anytime soon.