This card could possibly used as a remote video render farm.
OK, someone said each core is similar to an original Pentium boosted to about 1.1 GHZ and with the ability to run 4 threads added to it, with 57 of these procs. The board has its own IP address, can run generic x86 code, and can be ssh'ed into.
Suppose you get a board that can simply fire up the card, and use it as a video render farm for Kdenlive or another video editor? You would edit on the normal machine but would generate a script for rendering, then pass that script to the Xeon Phi. Even if each core was only as good as a P5 at 1.1 GHZ, with 57 of them it would be about equal to a 13 physical core processor at 4.5 GHZ in the special case of video editing in H264. If the 4-thread hyperthreading is only as good as the AMD Bulldozer twinned module approach (about 1.3* for 2 cores), you'd get the equivalent of 2.6*13 cores, or the equivalent of 4 AMD Bulldozer 8 core procs plus one Bulldozer six core proc on a single board, for the cost of a pair of Bulldozer 6 cores. The 1080p video I use won't fully load AMD Bulldozer in Kdenlive, but I suspect 4K video would be another story entirely. FFMPEG/libx264 itself scales just fine to an arbitrarily large number of threads it seems.
Hell, that render farm could be set up for a whole crew of filmmakers to access over a high-speed network, one box if nothing else could handle 8 video editing jobs at once based on my results with Bulldozer.
OK, someone said each core is similar to an original Pentium boosted to about 1.1 GHZ and with the ability to run 4 threads added to it, with 57 of these procs. The board has its own IP address, can run generic x86 code, and can be ssh'ed into.
Suppose you get a board that can simply fire up the card, and use it as a video render farm for Kdenlive or another video editor? You would edit on the normal machine but would generate a script for rendering, then pass that script to the Xeon Phi. Even if each core was only as good as a P5 at 1.1 GHZ, with 57 of them it would be about equal to a 13 physical core processor at 4.5 GHZ in the special case of video editing in H264. If the 4-thread hyperthreading is only as good as the AMD Bulldozer twinned module approach (about 1.3* for 2 cores), you'd get the equivalent of 2.6*13 cores, or the equivalent of 4 AMD Bulldozer 8 core procs plus one Bulldozer six core proc on a single board, for the cost of a pair of Bulldozer 6 cores. The 1080p video I use won't fully load AMD Bulldozer in Kdenlive, but I suspect 4K video would be another story entirely. FFMPEG/libx264 itself scales just fine to an arbitrarily large number of threads it seems.
Hell, that render farm could be set up for a whole crew of filmmakers to access over a high-speed network, one box if nothing else could handle 8 video editing jobs at once based on my results with Bulldozer.
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