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HyperTransport 3.0 Ratified
Hack Jandy writes "The HyperTransport consortium just released the 3.0 specification of HyperTransport. The new specification allows for external HyperTransport interconnects, basically meaning you might plug your next generation Opteron into the equivalent of a USB port at the back of your computer. Among other things, the new specification also includes hot swap, on-the-fly reconfigurable HT links and also a hefty increase in bandwidth."
I can only imagine what that could do to us cheap bastards who have small clusters of older PC's sitting in a second bedroom or closet.
"Hum... I can't quite afford a whole new system or even a motherboard and two new procs... I'll just add a new one to the back of an existing one"
At last! The day of easily being upgrade to a multi-proc system may soon be at hand! (assuming they also have some sort of... external hub device).
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I really can't see it being that kind of socket!
Oh I dunno, take it out to dinner, buy it a few drinks, you never know what could happen.
Not to be pedantic, but while I might not want to dedicate a large chunk of ram to a specific processor in such a manor, I might want to live in that manor, and maybe have my serfs carry out the computations for me.
I second that pedantry, and have aught but praise for the parent poster.
External HT is used to link multiple chassis together to form a large SMP box. This is similar to infiniband, etc.
Oh, so it's like USB
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Hell, I've got some change left over from lunch, I'm thinking of buying SGI.
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