[News] Tech Industry Leaders Unite, Unveil New High-Perf Server Interconnect Tech

[StyM]

https://www.techpowerup.com/226826/t...ect-technology

On the heels of the recent Gen-Z interconnect announcement, an aggregate of some of the most recognizable names in the tech industry have once again banded together. This time, it's an effort towards the implementation of a fast, coherent and widely compatible interconnect technology that will pave the way towards tighter integration of ever-more heterogeneous systems.

Technology leaders AMD, Dell EMC, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IBM, Mellanox Technologies, Micron, NVIDIA and Xilinx announced the new open standard to appropriate fanfare, considering the promises of an up-to 10x performance uplift in datacenter server environments, thus accelerating big-data, machine learning, analytics, and other emerging workloads. The interconnect promises to provide a high-speed pathway towards tighter integration between different types of technology currently making up the heterogeneous server computing's needs, ranging through fixed-purpose accelerators, current and future system memory subsistems, and coherent storage and network controllers.

[drmrlordx]

Interesting. I like the emphasis on latency reduction and virtual addressing. Still slower than NVLink's advertised 80 GB/s . . .

[zanzabar]

nvlink is designed for super computers, this looks like it is for data center and colo settings.

[drmrlordx]

Yeah I know. It's nice to dream though.