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   mutazilah@gmail.com to Scott Lurndal   
   Re: x86-S   
   23 May 23 16:02:19   
   
   From: muta...@gmail.com   
      
   On Wednesday, May 24, 2023 at 5:17:19 AM UTC+8, Scott Lurndal wrote:   
      
   > >Nice. 3Leaf sounds interesting; are there any papers on it    
   > >available?   
   > There are a couple of patents (one granted, one abandoned)    
   > at the USPTO. Not much else out in the public other than    
   > the various trade mag stuff from that time period.    
   >    
   > Basically we built an ASIC that extends the coherency domain    
   > across infiniband (or 10G Ethernet) to allow creation of    
   > large shared-memory cache-coherent systems from 1u or 2u    
   > building blocks. The ASIC talked HyperTransport for AMD    
   > Opteron CPUs and QuikPath for Intel CPUs.    
   >    
   > Had a 32-node, 64-processor system at LLNL for evaluation    
   > before the bottom dropped out of the markets, an acquision    
   > fell through and we shut down.   
      
   What market dropped, when and why?   
      
   Thanks. Paul.   
      
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