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I am pretty sure there is no other thread on this so here we go. According to the article below, PCI-E 4.0 is meant primarily for HPC interconnects according to PCI-SIG's Serial Communications Workgroup chair Ramin Neshati.
"Gen-four will be more of a boutique-type application for very few topologies." "Gen-three will be good enough for the world."
"By and large, we believe that gen-one, gen-two, and even gen-three will be good enough for the broad spectrum of applications for a long, long time," Neshati said. When asked what "a long, long time" means, his answer was simple and straightforward. "Forever."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/15/pci_four_dot_oh_and_hpc/
I have two questions. Can PCI-E 4.0 compete with other HPC interconnect standards? Will PCI-E 3.0 really be good enough for the world "forever" as the article claims, considering the evolution of GPUs/CPUs?
I don't know on the former and I doubt it on the latter. Any thoughts?
"Gen-four will be more of a boutique-type application for very few topologies." "Gen-three will be good enough for the world."
"By and large, we believe that gen-one, gen-two, and even gen-three will be good enough for the broad spectrum of applications for a long, long time," Neshati said. When asked what "a long, long time" means, his answer was simple and straightforward. "Forever."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/15/pci_four_dot_oh_and_hpc/
I have two questions. Can PCI-E 4.0 compete with other HPC interconnect standards? Will PCI-E 3.0 really be good enough for the world "forever" as the article claims, considering the evolution of GPUs/CPUs?
I don't know on the former and I doubt it on the latter. Any thoughts?
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