http://www.anandtech.com/show/7075/june-2013-top500-list-published-xeon-phi-takes-top-spot
Moved from “Latest News” to “Blender and CG Discussions”
huh sounded like some pretty cool news to me XD
Latest news is only for news directly pertaining to Blender. A snippet about a supercomputer that will never be used for rendering outside of extreme scientific studies doesn’t exactly fall into that category.
Would it prefrom better than an Nvidia GeForce dollar for dollar? Really cool, though.
you just give up to easy XD
you have the internet you know
you can even buy crack from it im sure we could get one of these
This article is not about the Xeon Phi. It’s about the placing of the Tianhe-2 supercomputer on the Top500 list. It just happens to use (a lot of) Xeon Phis. And just getting a Xeon Phi doesn’t mean you can use it the way it’s meant to be. It’s not a drop-in solution, especially for Blender users. Code has to be written to take advantage of it, as by all accounts running standard x86 and OpenCL code on it is quite slow.
i’d rather have this one for Blender.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6447/titan-takes-1-spot-on-top500-list-with-1759-petaflops-in-linpack
Titan brings together 18,688 compute nodes, each complete with a 16-core AMD Opteron 6274 CPU and an NVIDIA Tesla K20X GPU. The total core count ends up at 299,008 AMD x86 CPU cores and 50,233,344 NVIDIA GPU cores. Each CPU gets 32GB of DDR3 while each GPU is paired with 6GB of GDDR5 for a total of 710TB of memory in Titan altogether. The entire machine will use as much as 9 megawatts of power under full load.
And why would you rather have the computer that is now #2 in the world and is half the speed as the one mentioned by the OP?
The tesla architecture (via CUDA) is supported by blender. The Xeon Phi uses opencl which, while getting closer, is still not quite ready for primetime
why blender cant use this? 
The correct question is: why our money is wasted on that?
It’s really a moot point. The supercomputer the OP posted will be used for military uses. If we could get a build of blender running on it, I’m sure it would render very very fast.
While interesting to think about, it’s like wondering what it would be like to drive to the store in an aircraft carrier.
Find a parking spot would be difficult.