Yesterday, seven leading companies in the IT sector, announced the creation of a community that took an impossible task. Company AMD, ARM, Huawei, IBM, Mellanox, Qualcomm and Xilinx have gathered to present hardware platform and protocol for seamless, the communication of heterogeneous processors: general-purpose graphics, networking and various accelerators. In any one hardware solutions to any architecture, whether it be ARM architecture, Power and x86 hardware platform on the principles of coordinated (coherent) cache while maintaining the integrity of data.
The above list of union organizers, as it hints that Intel and NVIDIA has no place at this celebration . By the way, a catalyst for the emergence of a new association became Intel company after Altera acquisition . In the first quarter this year, Intel has started commercial deliveries of Xeon processors with integrated FPGA-matrices Altera. Such symbiosis maximally integrates accelerators computing platform, reducing the delay and speeding up the application as a whole.
The position of NVIDIA Corporation is not so simple. It is personally friendly with IBM and even with her in OpenPower alliance to promote the same name platforms. NVIDIA - coherent interface NVLink. One problem, the newly-born alliance, according to the list of companies that crystallized around a previously created ARM and AMD alliance Heterogeneous Systems Architecture Foundation companies. Actually, the new alliance CCIX (Cache Coherent Interconnect for Accelerators) extends HSAF frame to be included in the composition of heterogeneous platforms, network processors and accelerators.
It is expected that there will be rough CCIX specification before the end of this year. No advanced speed-type markers, level reducing delays and other things . Also, it does not know the level of funding and licensing principle. However, in CCIX a tangle of interests and contradictions that speculate on this topic can be infinity. Only one aspect: in almost each of the companies listed above has its own new generation of coherent interface. The only unifying element of all participants can be considered CCIX company Xilinx. Related Products :
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