Your help wanted - Let's buy GIMPS a KNL development system!

[ewmayer]

George, LMK if you need me to suspend my F30 run on the system so you can do timings - or did David give you admin access, allowing you to do so yourself?

[Prime95]

Originally Posted by ewmayer

George, LMK if you need me to suspend my F30 run on the system so you can do timings - or did David give you admin access, allowing you to do so yourself?

It will be a long while before I work on timings and optimization.

[pinhodecarlos]

I think I’ve read here that there was a msieve version compatible with the KNL. Anyone knows where can I find it? Tia.

[ewmayer]

The End Of Xeon Phi – It’s Xeon And Maybe GPUs From Here | NextPlatform.com

Article is actually from last year - lots of interesting data|leaks|surmises re. Intel's processor roadmap. Here the coda, which notes the same thing that formed the basis for the crowdfunding initiative in this thread, namely that KNL was different from all previous Phi versions in that its instruction set made it - in elaborated form - into Intel mainstream processor line:

Here is the thing to consider as Knights sunsets. The AVX-512 floating point unit, the mesh interconnect on the die, the integration of Omni-Path controllers, and the integration of high bandwidth stacked memory into the processor were all prototyped on Knights, and three of these features have gone mainstream in the Xeons and the fourth might in the Ice Lake generation of Xeons. And equally importantly, all of the work with the Knights coprocessors and processors does, in fact, give Intel an intellectual property foundation on which to make its own discrete GPUs. They just might not have so many X86 cores on them this time. Perhaps none at all.

[Mark Rose]

It's been a couple of years since I logged into that machine, but it was fun seeing so many threads. To this day people still say there aren't any x86-64 machines with SMT over 2 threads and I must remind them...

[ewmayer]

Originally Posted by Mark Rose

It's been a couple of years since I logged into that machine

Good luck with that now - physical-host/admin David Stanfill went AWOL this spring, at least as far as my being able to get hold of him is concerned.