Big-Iron to Open Up for AMD

Posted by Hemos on Monday October 17, 2005 @03:14AM from the opening-up-the-big-guns dept.

vincecate writes "Traditionally the key chips that have allowed companies to scale multiprocessors to large numbers have been proprietary. Some examples are the Cray SeaStar, SGI NUMAlink, HP sx1000, and the IBM X3/Hurricane. 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 has released InfiniPath which can be used with an Infiniband switch to make a high-bandwidth low-latency interconnect for a supercomputer cluster. The other company is Newisys, which will soon release the Horus chip. This chip will make it possible to build 32 socket (64-core) shared memory Opteron systems."

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Not much to say about AMD, by Sexual+Asspussy · 2005-10-17 03:16 · Score: -1, Offtopic

but I can verify that Kathleen Malda is scalable to at least seven simultaneous connections (nine if she can use her knees)
Well.. by ebob9 · 2005-10-17 03:16 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Prepare your +1 Redundant mods for the 'Beowulf cluster' comments!
Oblicatory.. by Anonymous Coward · 2005-10-17 03:37 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Imagine a beowulf cluster of these!
Just imagine.... by jwigum · 2005-10-17 03:41 · Score: -1, Offtopic

A beowulf cluster of.... Wait, never mind.

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1. Re:Just imagine.... by Anonymous Coward · 2005-10-17 04:20 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  In Soviet Russia, a Beowulf cluster of these imagines you!