OpenCAPI Unveiled: AMD, IBM, Google, Xilinx, Micron and Mellanox Join Forces
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Re: OpenCAPI Unveiled: AMD, IBM, Google, Xilinx, Micron and Mellanox Join Forces
#2Anand Tech seems quite excited about OpenPower and it does tend make me more interested in the Talos platform. https://www.raptorengineering.com/TALOS/prerelease.php
Re: OpenCAPI Unveiled: AMD, IBM, Google, Xilinx, Micron and Mellanox Join Forces
#3Hopefully this effort will get us rid of PCIe for good, unlike the version of CAPI available on POWER8.
Re: OpenCAPI Unveiled: AMD, IBM, Google, Xilinx, Micron and Mellanox Join Forces
#4No Intel ? Without them joining on board this might not be as useful.
Re: OpenCAPI Unveiled: AMD, IBM, Google, Xilinx, Micron and Mellanox Join Forces
#5No Intel ? Without them joining on board this might not be as useful.
We have every big name in this, including an x86 vendor. We don't need Intel. That's not a statement I can make often. :)
Re: OpenCAPI Unveiled: AMD, IBM, Google, Xilinx, Micron and Mellanox Join Forces
#6Hopefully this effort will get us rid of PCIe for good, unlike the version of CAPI available on POWER8.
What is wrong with PCIe? Hasn't it been extremely successful?
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#7Re: OpenCAPI Unveiled: AMD, IBM, Google, Xilinx, Micron and Mellanox Join Forces
#8> "NVIDIA is a member of the OpenCAPI consortium, at the "contributor level", which is the same level Xilinx has. The same is true for HPE (HP Enterprise)"
Awesome.
Re: OpenCAPI Unveiled: AMD, IBM, Google, Xilinx, Micron and Mellanox Join Forces
#9Hewlett-Packard Enterprise is also a member of this consortium (the source article was updated to reflect this)
Re: OpenCAPI Unveiled: AMD, IBM, Google, Xilinx, Micron and Mellanox Join Forces
#10Hopefully this effort will get us rid of PCIe for good, unlike the version of CAPI available on POWER8.
What's wrong with PCIe? The devices are ubiquitous. It's point-to-point, allowing for device to device connectivity. We have external PCIe enclosures and cables. We have a healthy set of PCIe switches.
This is similar. It's also point-to-point, and it has an external story. Skimming the spec, they've even thought about higher latency (200ns) links, and optical. Even with these advantages, I'm unsure how it'll work due to the lack of IP available as compared to PCIe.
Interesting, though. Will be fun to see it play out. It bums me out a little bit though that POWER isn't easily available yet.