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HyperTransport 3.0 Ratified

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the easy-to-upgrade-processor-dreams dept.

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."

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  1. NOT anything like USB at all. by Visaris · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Whoever subimtted the article doesn't understand what the external HT links are for. They are _NOT_ a replacement for USB or any other similar technology. External HT is used to link multiple chassis together to form a large SMP box. This is similar to infiniband, etc. This is NOT designed to be a way to just plug in a CPU to an external port. Read the pdf:

    http://www.hypertransport.org/docs/tech/ht30pres.p df

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