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Pushing PCI-Express Switches And Retimers To Boost Server Bandwidth
Things would go a whole lot better for server designs if we had a two year or better still a four year moratorium on adding faster compute engines to machines. …
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PCI-Express 5.0: The Unintended But Formidable Datacenter Interconnect
If the datacenter had been taken over by InfiniBand, as was originally intended back in the late 1990s, then PCI-Express peripheral buses and certainly PCI-Express switching – and maybe even Ethernet switching itself – would not have been necessary at all. …