----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Lindahl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2006 3:40 AM
Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Tyan's Beowulf in a box
On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 01:26:18AM +0100, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
Tyan is hammering upon their 'direct connect' architecture.
Vincent, this is just the AMD marketing term for HyperTransport.
Well HT is pretty fast way to glue 2 quads together to form
1 machine with 8 sockets:
http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderk8qe.html
http://www.tyan.com/products/html/m4881.html
2 hypertransport interconnects between the quad boards it looks like.
HT Edge Card
. Connecting 4 AMD OpteronT CPU on S4881 and
4 AMD OpteronT CPU on M4881
It's 2 quad boards that are glued together with interconnects (seems to
me
like htx slots by the way),
They aren't.
HTX is the 3.0 HT definition and this is a 1.0 HT way to glue things
together?
-- greg
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