Because of this, apps have to be recompiled to take advantage of the Xeon Phi processor. On a Linux system, that’s pretty easy. With Windows, it gets more complicated.

Xeon Phi will first show up in Stampede, a 10 Petaflop HPC Linux cluster expected to be operational by the start of 2013. Stampede, a project by the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) with the ...

Intel Corp. is trying to address the latter by shipping the 60-core Xeon Phi coprocessor, which accelerates highly-parallel applications. This isn't for an enteprise resource management suite but ...