PEARC25: Sticking (with) the Landing: A modern case for Knights Landing in Resource-Constrained Environments

July 19, 2025   Publication

Members of the HPC Ecosystems Community published a paper, delivered at PEARC25, describing a modern-take on the Intel Xeon Phi Knights Landing (KNL) architecture -- the same hardware architecture present in the Stampede2 computing infrastructure from TACC.

TLDR: At a high-level ... It works! It works great with OpenHPC and Slurm! It can offer equivalent performance to TWO Lengau nodes at 40% of the power consumption*! 

https://doi.org/10.1145/3708035.3736075

* under certain workloads and certain conditions ... BUT IT WORKS!