Re: Well, the FSB is stell a weakness for Intel.
It will be in some workloads, but not in everything. I think Intel is doing all they can by making the next Xeon MP chipset connect to all the CPUs via point to point FSB links. It will allow them to run the clock speed higher than Tulsa, and it will also double the bandwidth with double the number of busses relative to Tulsa. I think this bandwidth improvement will do wonders to already great performance.
Re: Another tool AMD has (will have) in HPC market is Torrenza.
If they can get this ramped up and with enough options by then, but I really doubt they will have this ecosystem ready. If it grabs a hand full of large installations, great, but it still won't contribute to sizable revenue amounts for quite some time yet. And I wouldn't count Intel out of this market, either, especially with them opening FSB licensing in the short term and moving to Geneseo in the long term.
Re: Combination of strong FP capabilities, native quad core, low latency, high bandwidth memory, glueless design and Torrenza make a for a pretty strong arsenal in the HPC market
Too bad the HPC market is just a fraction of the overall server business.
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