On: Intel's 50-Core Xeon Phi: The New Era of Inexpensi...

[shasta]

8 GB of RAM total?

[eliben → shasta]

I would guess the main goal is to perform parallel scientific computations on a shared chunk of data, not to run multiple web servers & services.

[fdej → shasta]

Seems pretty good if you compare it to a GPU.

[tsahyt → fdej]

The impressive thing is the memory bandwidth though. That's the one thing I've always loved GPUs for.

[CHsurfer → shasta]

Perhaps it could be a 'high CPU' micro instance. 16 512MB instance with 3 cores (6 threads) per instance...