[Colloquium] Nvidia's Kepler vs Intel's Xeon Phi: Which Accelerator will Rule the Future?

[Andrew A. Chien]

Title:  Nvidia's Kepler vs Intel's Xeon Phi: Which Accelerator will Rule
the Future?

Who: Dr. Yao Zhang and Professor Andrew A. Chien

Where and When: Ryerson 251, Monday, December 17th, 4pm

What: A Debate about the Future of Accelerated Computing

Now that the quarter is over (soon!), come and join us for a debate of the
about the two
leading contenders for accelerating the future of computing, Nvidia's
1.3TFlop Kepler (#1 ranked on
the Top 500 list) and Intel's 1Tflop Xeon Phi (#1 ranked on the Green 500
list).
We will with discuss this question with two advocates -- Dr. Yao
Zhang advocating Kepler and Dr. Andrew Chien advocating Xeon Phi.  The key
technical
elements of these two competing approaches will be described, laying out
out the key features of these teraflop processors, and we will aggressively
discuss their
pros and cons.  Finally the two advocates will explain which of these
accelerators will rule
2013, and whose descendants will rule the future (or at least beyond 2015).

Come and join us!  and when we're done, an audience vote will decide the
question.

Audience participation encouraged, and we'll arrange for refreshments that
encourage the discussion.

Hosted by the Large-scale Systems Group http://lssg.cs.uchicago.edu/


-- 
Andrew A. Chien
William Eckhardt Professor, Department of Computer Science
Senior Fellow, Computation Institute
The University of Chicago
Senior Computer Scientist, Mathematics and Computer Science
Argonne National Laboratory
achien at cs.uchicago.edu
http://cs.uchicago.edu/people/aachien/
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