Xeon Phi News Today

The last and final play for Intel Xeon Phi: Intel drops support for its MIC x86 processors.

Similar to the GCC compiler dropping support for the Xeon Phi Knights Mill and Knights Landing accelerators a few days ago, Intel has also gone ahead and seen to the removal of Xeon Phi support for the LLVM/Clang 19 compiler.

Researchers combine artificial intelligence, crowdsourcing and supercomputers

Results published in the scientific and technical literature show better-than-human accuracy on real-world tasks that include speech and facial recognition.

Last week I wrote about Intel aiming to remove Xeon Phi support in GCC 15 with the products being end-of-life and deprecated in GCC 14

For the GCC 14 compiler release is the deprecation of the Xeon Phi targets

Intel is sunsetting its first-gen Max Series GPU, also known as Ponte Vecchio, to focus on selling its Gaudi AI chips and developing its next-gen Falcon Shores GPU, according to a report and CRN source.

China publishes its fifth list of top Chinese supercomputers as companies cease to submit results to the American-led Top500 list.

Intel-powered Aurora Supercomputer has failed to reach Exaflop performance, beaten by the AMD Frontier in the Exascale race.

Multicore CPUs have to give user programs a way to synchronize between different cores, and ensure a coherent view of memory. A write from one core has to be made visible to others, even though each core has private caches. Cache coherency protocols like MESI, MESIF, or MOESI help make sure this happens. They're typically…