[x264-devel] intel co-processors ... finally a way to utilize HPC for x264?

[aviad rozenhek]

Dear experts,
Intel has announced a new family of "co-processors" on PCIe [aka GPUs].

excerpt:

> Knights Corner – which would have 50+ cores and be manufactured on Intel’s
> 22nm process.

and:

> 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

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6017/intel-announces-xeon-phi-family-of-coprocessors-mic-goes-retail


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.
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].

the question is, do you think that this proposed architecture from intel
would be efficient for encoding high-quality HD content?

-- 
Aviad Rozenhek
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