<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear experts,</div><div>Intel has announced a new family of "co-processors" on PCIe [aka GPUs].</div><div><br></div><div>excerpt:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Knights Corner – which would have 50+ cores and be manufactured on Intel’s 22nm process.</span></blockquote>
<div>and: </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px">with Intel confirming that it is indeed using an enhanced Pentium 1 (P54C) core with the addition of vector and FP64 hardware. Intel has also confirmed that Xeon Phi will offer 512-bit SIMD operations</span> </blockquote>
<div><a href="http://www.anandtech.com/show/6017/intel-announces-xeon-phi-family-of-coprocessors-mic-goes-retail">http://www.anandtech.com/show/6017/intel-announces-xeon-phi-family-of-coprocessors-mic-goes-retail</a> </div>
<div><br></div><div>for a long time i've argued that the best live H.264 encoding server is a latest-gen x86 server with 8-12 cores running x264, as it delivers a good compromise between TCO and encoding quality.</div>
<div>however there are other options like encoding on DSPs and GPUs [which often come at a price when it comes to quality] or on edge servers [which are more expensive].</div><div><br></div><div>the question is, do you think that this proposed architecture from intel would be efficient for encoding high-quality HD content?</div>
<div><br></div>-- <br>Aviad Rozenhek<br>
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