Co-Processor for Rendering

[guenther Malek]

Can a Co-Processor, like a Intel Xeon Phi be used for rendering?

With 57 cores@1100 MHz this should be faster than the cheapest 18-core Intel CPU

for a third of the price.....?

Maybe those are made for something completely different.

Edited November 2, 2015 by guenthermalek

[RyderSK]

No, they aren't currently supported anywhere in rendering much. They still require compiling the code in same way using Openl/CUDA does, albeit slightly more simply.

 

The ChaosGroup guys (Vlado @Vray) tried to build some prototype and they weren't too impressed, although imho the results looked OK. But I guess it didn't receive further attention at the moment.

 

For now, pass.