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gaius on Nov 20, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: IBM z14 Microprocessor and System Control Design

No, the Ares interconnect is brutally fast but it fundamentally isn’t doing anything as complicated as that. It acts as both storage and networking between the nodes.

gnufx on Nov 28, 2018 [–]

I missed this at the time, but yes -- that's the point, in comparison with NUMAlink or whatever it is now. (s/Ares/Aries/)

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