HyperTransport Consortium Announces High Performance Computing White Paper
The HyperTransport™ Technology Consortium, a non-profit industry organization that manages and promotes low latency HyperTransport technology, today announced a white paper entitled “The Future of High-Performance Computing: Direct Low-Latency Peripheral-to-CPU Connections.”
SUNNYVALE, California (PRWEB) November 3, 2005 -- The HyperTransport™ Technology Consortium, a non-profit industry organization that manages and promotes low latency HyperTransport technology, today announced a white paper entitled “The Future of High-Performance Computing: Direct Low-Latency Peripheral-to-CPU Connections.”
The white paper focuses on HTX – a new expansion interconnect that brings ultra-low latency and high performance to the input/output (I/O) slot, enabling direct communication with high-performance processors. The HTX expansion connector specification leverages industry-standard HyperTransport technology. It gives system and subsystem manufacturers a standard way to direct connect HyperTransport-enabled high-performance peripherals to HyperTransport-enabled processors, like AMD’s OpteronTM. The high-bandwidth, low-latency HyperTransport link is an integral part of many 64-bit motherboards and a key interprocessor link for multiprocessing systems. The paper addresses some of the challenges related to developing low-cost, high-performance computing solutions and introduces the business and technical advantages of HTX connectivity.
“This white paper illustrates the ability of HTX to deliver leading-edge performance at affordable prices using industry standard, off-the-shelf components,” said Mario Cavalli, general manager of the HyperTransport Consortium. “HTX connectivity is ideal for high-performance peripheral subsystem applications that demand the lowest possible latency such as server clustering, transactional systems and scientific modeling.
The white paper can be viewed at: http://www.hypertransport.org/tech/tech_whitepapers.cfm.
According to the paper, HTX provides system and peripheral card manufacturers numerous business benefits such as:
| | - State-of-the-art performance potential
- Extremely cost effective
- Easy integration
- Market and platform universality
- Increased market share
- Accelerated technology adoption
- No need for dedicated systems designs
- Multi-core, multi-processor support
- High-performance, low cost clusters
- Product leadership
- Complements general-purpose interconnects
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About HyperTransport Technology
HyperTransport is the industry's lowest latency, highest-performance, fully scalable, packet-based interconnect technology serving a wide range of industry segments. It is based on two 2-line to 32-line, asymmetric Low Voltage Differential Signaling (LVDS) links delivering up to 22.4 Gigabytes/second of aggregate CPU to CPU, CPU to I/O bandwidth in a highly efficient point-to-point, daisy-chain topology that replaces complex multi-level, multi-line buses. By enabling system designers to link peripheral subsystems or processors directly to the CPU or to multiple symmetric CPUs, the HyperTransport HTX™ connector makes compute intensive, leading edge CPU-to-I/O and board-to-board designs a reality for server clustering and high performance peripheral applications. HyperTransport technology is embedded in multiple CPU families from AMD, Broadcom, IBM, PMC-Sierra, Raza Microelectronics and Transmeta and in a variety of semiconductors and IP cores. It is fully software-compatible with legacy Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI), PCI-X and PCI Express technologies.
HyperTransport technology has been deployed in tens of millions of devices used in market leading products such as the Microsoft Xbox, Cisco routers, Apple, HP & Sun workstations, Apple, IBM, HP & Sun servers, HP blade PCs, HP & Sharp notebooks, Cray & IBM supercomputers, and all PCs, servers & cluster workstations based on the AMD Athlon™ 64, the AMD Opteron™ and Transmeta Efficeon processors. 2004 industry estimates from market analyst firm InStat project HyperTransport-based system product shipments to have reached nearly 26 million units in 2004 and to exceed 60 million units in 2006.
About HyperTransport Consortium
The HyperTransport Technology Consortium is a membership-based, non-profit organization in charge of managing and promoting HyperTransport Technology. It consists of over 40 industry-leading member companies, including founding members Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Alliance Semiconductor, Apple Computer, Broadcom Corporation, Cisco Systems, NVIDIA, PMC-Sierra, Sun Microsystems, and Transmeta. Membership is based on a reasonable yearly fee and it is open to any company interested in licensing the royalty-free use of HyperTransport technology and intellectual property. Consortium members have full access to HyperTransport technical documents database, they may attend Consortium meetings and events and may benefit from a variety of technical and marketing services, including the new, member-driven web portal, whose business benefits are part of a wide array of services offered by the Consortium free of charge to member companies. To learn more about member benefits and on how to become a Consortium member, please visit the Consortium Web site at www.hypertransport.org/consortium/cons_join.cfm.
Media Contact:
Erika Powelson
Tanis Communications
831-424-1811
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