larrabee

[timdog]

Theres alot of different rumors regarding the future/releasedate of Intels larrabee.
If well ever see It, will It carry any benefits for eg vray or any other "software" renderers?

As I understood it Larrabee is a bunch of x86 cores and does that mean that it would make an easier transition to support "normal" rendering?

What would the guys at chaosgroup prefer? Multicore x86 -Larrabee or other GPU solutions with OpenCl or CUDA?

[werticus]

we've already seen what vray can do with cuda, so id love some open CL so its not limited to nvidia.

[vlado]

The GPU version of V-Ray is written for OpenCL, so it will run on any device that supports it.

Best regards,
Vlado

[timdog]

Yeah, theres no doubt that OpenCl is the better choice. I was just curious if Larrabee is different/has any benefits from other hardware. From what I gathered Its built by several x86 cores and Intel is actually marketing it as "computational device" with 16/24/32/48 cores. For me that looks pretty much like a renderfarm in a box. Any other insights?