UKUUG: Arnd Bergmann on interconnecting with PCIe

Posted Nov 20, 2008 22:49 UTC (Thu) by jengelh (guest, #33263)
Parent article: UKUUG: Arnd Bergmann on interconnecting with PCIe

This triblade concept of linking an Opteron with Cell over PCIe sounds highly interesting. But I doubt it is an SSI, is it?

I'd really wish there was SSI hardware with different CPU types. That could aid in software development, or just for the fun of possessing one. Something unlike Cell though (SPU/SPE are all in the PPC group, kinda boring) what I think of is more like a mainboard with, say, one AMD64 core, one IA64 core and a SPARC64 core.

UKUUG: Arnd Bergmann on interconnecting with PCIe

Posted Nov 21, 2008 16:12 UTC (Fri) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link] (2 responses)

IBM, as you probably know, is about a decade or two ahead of everybody else in terms of virtualization. In the past they've offered POWER boxes that had a add-on Xeon processor so that you can run Windows along side AIX and Linux on the same machine.

This seems like a extension of that.

UKUUG: Arnd Bergmann on interconnecting with PCIe

Posted Nov 21, 2008 16:28 UTC (Fri) by jengelh (guest, #33263) [Link] (1 responses)

Now add affordable to the end customer to the equation ;-)

UKUUG: Arnd Bergmann on interconnecting with PCIe

Posted Nov 21, 2008 22:27 UTC (Fri) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767) [Link]

True for now. However, it is possible that Windows licenses will come down in price at some future time. ;-)