Cray, Sun, IBM support AMD's Torrenza platform | TG Daily

Cray, Sun, IBM support AMD's Torrenza platform | TG Daily: "Torrenza will provide direct access to an AMD64-based processor via a Hypertransport link. According to AMD, the technology will allow third party hardware developer to integrate their own silicon into a spare socket on a Torrenza motherboard and combine their technology with an AMD Opteron or Athlon CPU. Conceivably, this socket could house co-processors - so-called 'accelerators' - that focus on specialized applications such as physics, floating-point calculations, storage or graphics"