Multiple Front Side Buses; Coming To An Intel Server Near You

KingFishKingFish
edited November 2004 in Science & Tech
Anandtech takes a look at Intel's new server chipsets, Blackford and Greencreek.
Greencreek (also known as Greencreek 2S - 2Socket) is slated as the Tumwater (E7525) replacement, while Blackford is the Lindenhurst (E7520) replacement. In short, the two chipsets are nearly identical with Blackford serving as the high end version of the platform. The large news here is Intel's push for dual front side buses. The latest Intel roadmaps thoroughly describe dual independent buses as:
"New 2S platform architecture for improved performance"
2S, of course, denotes 2 Sockets. With advances towards dual core processing, the idea of independent buses per socket probably indicates the best approach possible for Intel to de-saturate the front side bus. We already know that Twin Castle will utilize independent memory controllers, and with Greencreek/Blackford showing up soon after with dedicated paths to their memory controllers, we could see large boosts in memory IO. The roadmap indicates Twin Castle will utilize multiple buses in later revisions as well.
Source: Anandtech
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