> Still, I would have very much liked to play around with the 'phi'.
Well, if you're still interested, KNL is a significantly better architecture, so you could just try now.
> That's the kind of deal I was looking at too. Maybe they were massively discounted because they were already EOL'd?
Refreshed my memory and I was wrong; there was some discussion to jump on the $125-$195/card deal Colfax had late 2014 [1] (likely dumping stock due to EOL), but we figured that they are not even worth that much. In comparison, the one card we have was actually bought just 10-11 months before for ~$1500.
Well, if you're still interested, KNL is a significantly better architecture, so you could just try now.
> That's the kind of deal I was looking at too. Maybe they were massively discounted because they were already EOL'd?
Refreshed my memory and I was wrong; there was some discussion to jump on the $125-$195/card deal Colfax had late 2014 [1] (likely dumping stock due to EOL), but we figured that they are not even worth that much. In comparison, the one card we have was actually bought just 10-11 months before for ~$1500.
[1] http://www.colfax-intl.com/nd/xeonphi/31s1p-promo.aspx