[Pc_Support] AMD gains components for Big Iron market

[Damien McKenna]

>From /.

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/17/115221&threshold=3&tid=14
2&tid=218

"Traditionally the key chips that have allowed companies to scale
multiprocessors to large numbers have been proprietary. Some examples
are the Cray SeaStar <http://www.cray.com/products/xt3/>, SGI NUMAlink
<http://www.sgi.com/products/servers/altix/numalink.html>, HP sx1000
<http://h71028.www7.hp.com/ERC/downloads/sx1000_White_Paper_.pdf>, and
the IBM X3/Hurricane
<http://www.ibm.com/news/nz/en/2005/02/2005022301.html>. This
proprietary paradigm is about to change to a more open one. Two
companies have developed key chips for building large Opteron
multiprocessors, and they will be commercial off-the-shelf parts.
PathScale <http://www.pathscale.com/>  has released InfiniPath
<http://www.pathscale.com/infinipath.php> which can be used with an
Infiniband <http://www.infinibandta.org/> switch to make a
high-bandwidth low-latency interconnect for a supercomputer cluster. The
other company is Newisys <http://www.newisys.com/>, which will soon
release <http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=26948> the Horus chip
<http://www.hypertransport.org/docs/tech/horus_external_white_paper_fina
l.pdf>. This chip will make it possible to build 32 socket (64-core)
shared memory Opteron systems."
 
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