[VodkaHaze]

Do you still need the costly intel compiler suite to run some C++ code on it?

Honestly they make it pretty hard to hack with as a device. It could succeed as a device if they let devs easily create cool applications with it.

[mtanski]

Both gcc & llvm can compile binaries targeting the Phi. Since it runs in Linux (as addin PCIe card or host Linux CPU) it can run any kind of ELF x86_64 binary. They also support generating AVX-512 instruction of the Phi.