The Knights Landing (KNL) update of Intel's Xeon Phi product line is now available. For the applications I'm primarily interested in, namely the numerical solution of partial differential equation, the typical bottleneck is memory bandwidth. To assess memory bandwidth, the STREAM benchmark is the de-facto standard, so let us have a look at how KNL compares to the previous Xeon Phi generation (Knights Corner, KNC) as well as to the Xeon product line.
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