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Whither Horus ?

 
 
Rob Stow
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      18th Nov 2005
The SuperComputing 2005 shindig in Seattle is over - with no news
about the Horus demo that was supposed to have happened there.

Google/Yahoo doesn't find anything other than pre-conference
speculation.

Anybody got solid news about what did or didn't happen ?
 
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Yousuf Khan
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      19th Nov 2005
Rob Stow wrote:
> The SuperComputing 2005 shindig in Seattle is over - with no news about
> the Horus demo that was supposed to have happened there.
>
> Google/Yahoo doesn't find anything other than pre-conference speculation.
>
> Anybody got solid news about what did or didn't happen ?


Phil Hester, the father of Horus but now works for AMD, was saying that
some upcoming versions of Opteron will be able to do 32-socket all by
themselves without needing Horus. But those are several years down the
road. Wonder if that scared Newisys off?

Yousuf Khan
 
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Del Cecchi
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      19th Nov 2005

"Yousuf Khan" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Rob Stow wrote:
>> The SuperComputing 2005 shindig in Seattle is over - with no news
>> about the Horus demo that was supposed to have happened there.
>>
>> Google/Yahoo doesn't find anything other than pre-conference
>> speculation.
>>
>> Anybody got solid news about what did or didn't happen ?

>
> Phil Hester, the father of Horus but now works for AMD, was saying that
> some upcoming versions of Opteron will be able to do 32-socket all by
> themselves without needing Horus. But those are several years down the
> road. Wonder if that scared Newisys off?
>
> Yousuf Khan


Several explanations could be true.

They only taped out in the spring, maybe it didn't work so well. I
started reading a roundtable from a 11/16 and no mention was made either
way, unless it was further down. That would explain the "no demo".

Maybe it took so long it is obsolete. HT3 is coming it is said and a chip
set that only supported HT2 would be a bummer.

Maybe the outfit (samnia-SCI, who used to build pc-jr for IBM) that
acquired them has backburnered things. After all they are not a system
vendor.

del (your guess is as good as mine)


 
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gagorp@gmail.com
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      19th Nov 2005
I just returned from SC05, and Horus was running, and displayed
prominantly in the AMD booth. I believe it was a 32-way system running
in the booth. They indicated that they had both 64-bit Linux and 64-bit
Windows Datacenter running (was running Windows when I saw it).

Looking at Yahoo, looks like they did a press release on it also:

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/051114/sfm057.html?.v=32

 
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Del Cecchi
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      20th Nov 2005

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>I just returned from SC05, and Horus was running, and displayed
> prominantly in the AMD booth. I believe it was a 32-way system running
> in the booth. They indicated that they had both 64-bit Linux and 64-bit
> Windows Datacenter running (was running Windows when I saw it).
>
> Looking at Yahoo, looks like they did a press release on it also:
>
> http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/051114/sfm057.html?.v=32
>


Good for them. I am happy to see it.

del


 
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