If Xeon Phi is going to run linux out of the box, then that's Intel basically declaring that they want this card to be supported by the opensource community from day one, correct?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me that the Xeon Phi is only going to be useful to open source developers early on, and then as libraries are built that make use of the Xeon Phi, application developers will be able to build on top of those libraries. So we're probably a long way off (and likely a few different shifts in co-processor technology) before a card like this is useful to the typical, end user.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me that the Xeon Phi is only going to be useful to open source developers early on, and then as libraries are built that make use of the Xeon Phi, application developers will be able to build on top of those libraries. So we're probably a long way off (and likely a few different shifts in co-processor technology) before a card like this is useful to the typical, end user.