Re: Probably the first serious response to HyperTransport in the 2P space.
It is a serious response, but as a response it's neither adequate nor complete.
AMD's architecture has 3 advantages when compared to Intel's architecture:
The first is very low latency to local memory.
The second is seperation of the memory and I/O busses.
The third is memory bandwidth that scales as sockets are added.
Blackford increasees memory bandwidth, partially addressing the issue three.
Actually there's a fourth one, which is that AMD's platform is widely available with years of proof in the field, while Blackford is a future system for Intel. Intel is working to copy AMD's distributed bandwidth architecture, as it copied AMD's CPU design, but that won't be ready for a long time.
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