#CHIPS: "Financial Predictions Harness Xeon Phi"

Intel’s many-integrated core (MIC) technology has prompted dozens of scientific- and engineering-benchmarks, but the massively parallel Xeon Phi co-processor can also boost financial predictions, according to new benchmarks recently published by Xcelerit Computing Ltd. (Dublin, Ireland): R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog


The Intel Xeon Phi co-processor (red and blue) ran up to three-times faster than the traditional Xeon E5s (black) for parallel processing paths over 128k, offering up to three-times the performance for parallel paths as high as 1024k. SOURCE: Xcelerit
Xcelerit ran the financial benchmarks on a Xeon Phi coprocessor manages by twin Xeon E5-2670 main processors, each with 8 cores. By comparing the 16 Xeon E5 cores at 2.5-GHz to the 60 Xeon Phi cores running at 1-GHz, the benchmark puts to rest the question of whether more is better...
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