Hi Prentice, my wrong, I don't think in these ways. I was simply thinking about a wider market to the advantage of the users. I forget that companies see things differently. ;-)
All the best from a warm London Jörg On Tuesday 01 Apr 2014 16:38:54 Prentice Bisbal wrote: > On 03/30/2014 06:53 PM, Christopher Samuel wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On 28/03/14 03:09, Jörg Saßmannshausen wrote: > >> However, the main question is: will that work with other chipsets > >> (Intel, AMD) as well or will that only work with the IBM chips? > > > > I guess given the IBM Lenovo deal IBM likely have no interest on their > > part, so I suppose it'll come down to whether Intel and/or AMD feel > > its worth their time investing in it. > > > > Given that AMD and nVidia are both ARM licensees perhaps they may > > choose to go down that path to keep Intel out in the cold? > > Why would IBM/NVIDIA want this to work with Intel/AMD chips? As a > business strategy, I think they want to compete with Intel/AMD in the > HPC market. Keeping this technology limited to IBM/NVIDIA collaborations > can give them a competitive advantage with Intel. Look at the advantage > IBM's networking gave the Blue Gene systems. > > Besides, Intel has been buying up interconnect companies, so they're > probably working on their own competitor to this. Why would they want to > compete with their own products? > > -- > Prentice > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf -- ************************************************************* Jörg Saßmannshausen University College London Department of Chemistry Gordon Street London WC1H 0AJ email: [email protected] web: http://sassy.formativ.net Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
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