That doesn't sound like a worthwhile approach to me.
Xeon are server CPUs. So that means that whoever bothers buying Xeons with scientific computing in mind may as well go all the way and buy nVidia GPUs instead.
So instead of making that framework available to all Intel Haswell and newer families and try to persuade the customer from having to buy nVidia GPUs, they cut themselves short.
The Xeon Phi is not a Xeon. It's a co-processor. https://www-ssl.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/xeon/... The main advantage is that you can run almost-normal x86 code on it. Each core gets its own cache, so it's not really the same as programming for GPUs.
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That doesn't sound like a worthwhile approach to me.
Xeon are server CPUs. So that means that whoever bothers buying Xeons with scientific computing in mind may as well go all the way and buy nVidia GPUs instead.
So instead of making that framework available to all Intel Haswell and newer families and try to persuade the customer from having to buy nVidia GPUs, they cut themselves short.
The Xeon Phi is not a Xeon. It's a co-processor. https://www-ssl.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/xeon/... The main advantage is that you can run almost-normal x86 code on it. Each core gets its own cache, so it's not really the same as programming for GPUs.