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32-Way Opteron systems could be here next year

By Derek Sooman

On August 24, 2004, 12:57 PM

An interconnect chipset that will allow server vendors to have systems with 32 Opteron CPUs should be with as next year, according to a recent article. The technology comes to us courtesy of Newisys, a Texas based firm started in July 2000. The secret is the "Horus" chip, which was designed to allow a glueless 8-way system using AMD's Opteron chip. Horus serves as a controller, maintaining connections between the processors using the Opteron's HyperTransport links. This permits scalability to 32 processors.

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