Question Intel OPA

[navinjsheth]

Are AMD processors supported on Intel OPA products please ??

Na


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[VirtualLarry]

What's an "OPA" product? I've heard of an OPN, which I think stands for "Ordering Product Number".

 

[navinjsheth]

"OPA" is Intel Omni Path Architecture" networking products at 100GBPS.

Navin

 

[VirtualLarry]

While we're asking, I'm also curious if the official "Intel Gig+ Wifi" (AX200 desktop bundle kit) works on AM4 / Zen.

 

[Hitman928]

As far as I know the answer is no. Anything that was made pre-omni path spinoff is intel only. There's a possibility that after spinning of the division into its own company that future products will be compatible with AMD/ARM/whoever, but I'm not aware of any market available products from that new company at this time.

 

[SarahKerrigan]

As far as I know the answer is no. Anything that was made pre-omni path spinoff is intel only. There's a possibility that after spinning of the division into its own company that future products will be compatible with AMD/ARM/whoever, but I'm not aware of any market available products from that new company at this time.

There's already a cluster (LLNL's Mammoth) that has been announced to be using Epyc and the Interconnect Formerly Known as OPA - so it's at least available to someone. Obviously "LLNL can order it" is a little different from "you can buy it off the shelf", of course.

AMD-Supermicro-Cornelis (Omni-Path) ‘Mammoth’ Cluster at LLNL Targets COVID-19 - insideHPC

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and partners AMD, Supermicro and Cornelis Networks have installed a high performance computing cluster with memory and data storage capabilities targeting data-intensive COVID-19 research workloads. The Cornelis interconnect used in the “Mammoth” cluster is...

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