Spanish researchers join consortium: News from HyperTransport Consortium

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The Hypertransport Technology Consortium, a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to developing, promoting and licensing the industry's lowest latency, highest bandwidth interconnect technology, has announced the addition of the Technical University of Valencia (TUV) to its academic membership roster. TUV brings extensive knowledge and background in interconnect technology to the consortium, which grants free membership to any accredited educational and not-for-profit institution, allowing full access to HyperTransport technology information and IP for educational purposes. 'Academic institutions have delivered valuable research and development contributions to our consortium and they bring the potential of uncovering entirely new extensions and applications for HyperTransport technology', said Mario Cavalli, General Manager of the HyperTransport Consortium.

'The Technical University of Valencia is a prestigious institution that has already worked closely with the technology industry'.

'We believe their active consortium role will contribute to broadening the use of HyperTransport technology and to expanding its adoption in all high-performance computing sectors'.

'As a new member of the consortium, we look forward to continuing our research contributions to further maximise the use of HyperTransport technology and uncover new breakthrough applications', said Prof Jose Duato, head of the Parallel Architectures Group for TUV.

'We also intend to collaborate with consortium member companies to take the technology to the next level'.

Professor Duato leads a team of more than 60 researchers from four universities in Spain.

He has been recently awarded the Jaume I Prize on New Technologies 2006 for his contributions to the design of faster interconnection networks for supercomputers.

This is a very prestigious research prize that will be delivered by Spain's Queen Sofia.

This year, there were 17 Nobel Prize winners among the members of the selection committee.

The HyperTransport Consortium is working with the Technical University of Valencia's Parallel Architectures Group, a leading research group that develops advanced applied research in the areas of interconnection networks, multiprocessor architectures and processor microarchitecture.

This group has already completed work in flow control optimisation intended to use buffers more efficiently.

The work is captured in a white paper titled 'HyperTransport technology: an efficient implementation of the HyperTransport flow-control protocol', which can be found on the HyperTransport Consortium website.

This group is currently working on protocol optimisation intended to further lower latency in HyperTransport designs.

TUV has contributed research in advanced adaptive routing techniques implemented in the Cray T3E, the Alpha 21364 microprocessor and the IBM BlueGene/L, an efficient and truly scalable congestion management technique for lossless networks, and a scalable three-level directory architecture for shared-memory multiprocessors.

TUV has also developed expertise in almost every aspect of interconnection networks, including deadlock handling, routing techniques, switching techniques, fault tolerance, multicast routing, network reconfiguration, congestion management, switch architecture and power consumption.

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Spanish researchers join consortium

The Technical University of Valencia has joined the HyperTransport Technology Consortium.