For parallel MIP the GPU based solutions such as http://www.nvidia.com/object/tesla-supercomputing-solutions.html are not very useful (although for some specialized applications GPU based optimization algorithms have been developed). Now Intel has an alternative:
http://www.drdobbs.com/parallel/intels-50-core-xeon-phi-the-new-era-of-i/240105810
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/xeon/xeon-phi-detail.html
The 60 cores sound attractive, but the limited amount of memory (8GB) may be a problem for big MIPs.
The clock speed is 1.053 GHz, which is slower than any current laptop, let alone a workstation or server. So simplex will be slow. Nevertheless, it's an interesting idea for cases where you can benefit from lots of parallel computing.
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