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If you abstract that ask just a bit there is already an answer, although it's more of an industrial answer. the COM-Express Spec is something of this Universal socket [0]

And while all of that link above looks like a creamy beige box cringefest, the COM-HPC[1] interface is being used for some heavy-hitting systems including Xeon and Ampere Altra [2]

So, yea, you can get this in something more interoperable.

0 - https://www.picmg.org/openstandards/com-express/

1 - https://www.picmg.org/openstandards/com-hpc/

2 - https://www.ipi.wiki/pages/com-hpc-altra



> If you abstract that ask just a bit there is already an answer, although it's more of an industrial answer. the COM-Express Spec is something of this Universal socket [0]

So are PCIe slots, except GPUs seem to have won on that front (RIP Xeon Phi).

Moving forward: PCIe 5.0 is having more-and-more atomic instructions execute over the PCIe 5.0 specification. Its looking like PCIe 5.0 will have cache-cohesive, in particular, the Compute Express Link (CXL).

So PCIe is looking more-and-more like a "standardized socket", rather than an I/O mechanism.




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