Even more exciting is the OmniPath[1] stuff that came out as a result of the Infiniband acquisition. RDMA + Xeon Phi + the insane number of PCI-e lanes[2] available for those new M.2 SSDs which post just absolutely insane numbers[3] all of which are supported by ICC[4] and you've got a really budget-friendly HPC setup. I'm really hoping for IBM's OpenPOWER to gain traction because Intel is poised to capture the mid-market in a dramatic fashion.
[1] See: IntelOmniPath-WhitePaper_2015-08-26-Intel-OPA-FINAL.pdf (my copy is paywalled, sorry) [2] http://www.anandtech.com/show/9802/supercomputing-15-intels-... [3] http://www.anandtech.com/show/9702/samsung-950-pro-ssd-revie... [4] https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/distributed-memory... This is for Fortran, but the same remote Direct-Memory-Access concepts extend over to the new Xeon architecture.