[Info-vax] Intel's Quickpath (CSI)

[johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk]

On Apr 26, 1:03 pm, Neil Rieck <n.ri... at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> On Apr 24, 11:29 pm, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
>
> > Back in 2004, Carly and Intel made major announcements, notably Intel
> > following AMD's lead to make 64 bit 8086s, as well as launching CSI, a
> > common system interconnect that would be used for both IA64 an 8086
> > architectures. Originally was to be available in 2007.
>
> > Back then, it was always tought that IA64 would be first to market with
> > this "high end" feature.
>
> > Apple has it now.http://www.apple.com/ca/macpro/features/processor.html
>
> > Granted, many of the features in this have been seen before.  But in
> > term of Intel's product, we are now seeing new high end features come
> > out in commodity systems first.
>
> Kudos to Apple for educating their consumers about why to stick with
> Apple products (even though they are referencing Intel technology
> improvements in the link you provided; this is something that DEC used
> to do; Compaq did it to a lesser extent; HP doesn't seem to do it at
> all anymore).
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickPath
>
> While Apple makes this technology available through Xeon-Nehalem, it
> is also available on PCs sporting Intel's Core i7 CPU (currently
> available in Canada atwww.futureshop.ca)
>
> NSR

"HP doesn't seem to do it at all anymore"

I would be very surprised if that was the case; when I was a CPQ
employee there was a vast number of presales techies in CPQ and/or in
resellers who would be keeping up to date (and should be keeping their
customers and salesfolks up to date) on the latest greatest Intel
technologies and roadmaps.

As well as face to face sessions there would be technical white
papers; here is one found by searching for Proliant Quickpath:
ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/products/servers/HP_ProLiant_G6_Technology_Overview.pdf
(yes it's a CPQ not HP IP address??)

Laughably Google headlines this whitepaper (and many others) "Meet the
HP Superdome servers" though that text doesn't seem to appear in the
document itself.

There's lots of other relevant stuff if you search for Proliant G6.

Is there any Itanium/Quickpath stuff? Would anybody care if there
was... Unisys (one of the few Itanium vendors outside HP) earlier this
year pretty much announced end of life for their Itanium-based boxes
(a next generation Itanium with QuickPath isn't compatible with their
current electronics) but they continue with the Xeon/Quickpath
equivalent.
E.g. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/19/unisys_xeon_unisys/