NightShade
Power Member
Torrenza é o nome da nova Tecnologia que a AMD vai aplicar, a Arquitectura dos seus processadores OPTERON. É uma arquitectura aberta baseada nos processadores 64 bits em que a AMD lhe chama de 'Accelerators'. Usando a junção dos 'accelelerators', o sistema terá uma performance de cálculos especializados, idênticos ao que se utiliza hoje em dia nos GPUs.
Citação:
'Because of its flexibility, the HyperTransport protocol allows a multitude of co-processor designs that are already compatible with systems on other platforms. For example, with Torrenza, specialized co-processors are able to sit directly into an Opteron socket, and communicate directly with the entire system. During the conference, Cray Inc. noted that it had worked with AMD to design a system where a system can contain even up to three different co-processors, all dedicated to specialized tasks. All three processors would communicate directly with Opteron processors and the system chipset harmonously. The open-ended nature of Torrenza will allow companies to design specialized processors to plug-in and work with Torrenza-enabled Opteron systems. Although AMD acknowledges many of these applications can run off PCIe and other connection technologies, Torrenza emphasizes HT-3 and HTX in particular.'
mais informaçao: http://dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=2642
