Memory part 4: NUMA support

Memory part 4: NUMA support

Posted Oct 19, 2007 4:47 UTC (Fri) by sweikart (guest, #4276)
Parent article: Memory part 4: NUMA support

Intel is working on a point-to-point processor interconnect called QuickPath, which is a
competitor to AMD's HyperTransport.

AMD will support HyperTransport 3.0 with its next-generation sockets (AM2+ and F+).
HyperTransport 3.0 lets you split the links in half, so you can have 8 links total (and HT3.0
links can run twice as fast as HT2.0 links, so the half-width links should have good
throughput).  I assume this will enable a fully-connected (diameter of 1) eight-socket server.

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