San Francisco, Sep 28 2006 (Korea
Newswire)-- IBM and Intel Corporation, with support from
dozens of other companies, have developed a proposal to
enhance PCI Express* technology to address the performance
requirements of new usage models, such as visualization and
extensible markup language (XML).
The proposal, codenamed “Geneseo,” outlines enhancements
that will enable faster connectivity between the processor
-- the computer’s brain -- and application accelerators, and
improve the range of design options for hardware developers.
Applications that will benefit include visualization, such
as complex weather modeling; math and physics, such as data
intensive financial applications; and content processing,
such as the encryption and decryption of communications
infrastructure data.
“IBM is co-founding a new open standard for attaching
accelerators and co-processors to server platforms,” said
Dr. Tom Bradicich, IBM fellow and chief technology officer,
System x™ and BladeCenter? Servers. “Like PCI-X, InfiniBand
and PCI Express, this new architecture defines a
standards-based approach for improving general purpose
server accessibility within new and emerging application
areas, such as encryption, visualization, XML and complex
mathematical modeling.”
“Five years ago Intel, along with IBM and other industry
leaders, laid out a 10-year vision for an open,
standards-based interface for the entire computer industry,”
said Pat Gelsinger, senior vice president, general manager,
Intel’s Digital Enterprise Group. “In 2004, PCI Express was
the first step and today is the overwhelming choice for
desktop, mobile and server systems. Geneseo is the next step
in this vision and will address new requirements and
opportunities that come with next-generation platforms.”
Geneseo is supported by key technology companies including
Adaptec Inc., AGEIA Technologies Inc., Altera Corporation,
Broadcom Corporation, Celoxica, Cisco Systems, ClearSpeed
Technology, Dell, EMC Corporation, Emulex Corporation, HP,
Integrated Device Technology Inc., Lecroy Corporation, Linux
Networx, LSI Logic, Mellanox Technologies, Myricom,
NetEffect, Novell, NVIDIA, PLX Technology, PMC-Sierra,
QLogic, Sun Microsystems, Synopsys, Tektronix, Xambala Inc.,
Xilinx Inc. and Xtreme Data.
PCI Express technology was first delivered in client and
server computing platforms in 2004. Its introduction
signaled the transition of computing platform I/O from the
parallel bus model that had existed since the PC industry’s
inception to a high-speed, serial I/O standard. Since this
time, millions of PCI Express-enabled platforms and devices
have been delivered to customers, and PCI Express has
emerged as the industry’s choice for platform I/O and
internal interconnect connectivity.
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