On Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 10:36 PM Nicholas Krause via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
Greetings, I mentioned this to some of you at the meeting in December but IBM and others are working on creating a new standard to replace PCI express and some of its limitations called Open CAPI. The current versions is as fast as NVLink at 50GBs in a x16 lane from memory which future versions being able to hit over 100GBs in the same lane speed and 250ms latency guaranteed as compared to the 500ms to 750ms in PCI express.
This is a link:https://opencapi.org/ to anyone who wants to read the spec, through you will have to give them a email and I believe where you work. Currently POWER is the only real architecture supporting it through or NVlink for that matter.
This would seem to mean that computers are going to have a new form of guts totally incompatible with the previous form some time soon - - yes?