https://www.ebay.ca/itm/133774650863
https://www.ebay.ca/itm/125050910979

128 Cores
512 Threads
16BG on die ram.

$1000

thoughts? boinc supporters.

Hi,

I don't think, using a co-proccessor would be the best option. The clock speed is really low. It would do many tasks at the same moment, but none of them really fast. You theoretically can use those, but i wouldn'd really recommend this. It could also be that those co-processors don't even work with boic. And if you plan to use them with Windows 10, good luck. As far as I know, those aren't officialy supported and could therefore lead to regular system crashes. If you really use them, you should do it with Linux.

Also, because this is a co-processor and not a regular CPU, you have to use another processor, that then will be the main CPU. And your motherboard should be compatible with the Xeon Phi.

And also don't forget, that you need more than the on-die memory. With that many cores and threads, I'd recommend about 256 GiB to 512 GiB of Memory.

And last but not least, There is no guarantee that BOINC will work on the Xeon Phi. Please have that in mind.

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~ Marcel

Providing computational ressources located in Germany.

contact me: boinc@marcelstiller.com