[GTALUG] Open CAPI Standard

[o1bigtenor]

On Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 10:36 PM Nicholas Krause via talk
<talk at 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?