Innovation Community
| Torrenza is designed to create an opportunity for the global innovation community, encouraging external innovation on a number of fronts. |
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| By working closely with OEMs, hardware providers, and software developers, AMD is leading industry efforts to provide a standards-based platform on which partners can deliver a wide range of technology solutions. |
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| As a result, customers who choose the AMD Opteron™ processor can expect an expanded number of options for solving the processing problems of the future. |
Torrenza is designed to create an opportunity for the global innovation community, encouraging external innovation on a number of fronts.
By working closely with OEMs, hardware providers, and software developers, AMD is leading industry efforts to provide a standards-based platform on which partners can deliver a wide range of technology solutions.
As a result, customers who choose the AMD Opteron™ processor can expect an expanded number of options for solving the processing problems of the future.
OEM Partners
The Torrenza Innovation Socket enables OEMs who develop their own processors to take full advantage the x86 operating environment.
This new approach enables OEMs to consolidate server offerings for multiple processors to potentially a single platform, reducing datacenter disruption and deployment costs for customers.
Leading server OEMs that develop silicon, including Cray, IBM, and Sun, have endorsed Torrenza as an open innovation initiative.
Cray
Cray's Adaptive Supercomputing puts Cray on the edge of computer technology advances. With the emerging Torrenza ecosystem, Cray can leverage additional innovations to extend the realized performance people expect from Cray.
IBM
IBM, a leader in the open market, always welcomes partners that take an open approach to innovation. By working with AMD and joint clients, IBM is collaborating to deliver new value.
Sun
Sun recognizes the opportunity for innovation through AMD's Torrenza initiative across all of Sun's product lines. The initiative presents an interesting value proposition for leveraging volume economics while giving our customers the growth flexibility they require.
Torrenza Ecosystem Partners
Partners deliver a steady stream of innovation by building upon their unique expertise to help provide the tools, software, and services to maximize performance.
Torrenza encourages the sharing and licensing of HyperTransport™ technology to the industry at large via the HyperTransport Technology Consortium.
The Consortium has created a HyperTransport specification, HTX, for option cards and expansion slots that directly connect to AMD processors.
ACTIV Financial, Inc
ACTIV provides the industry’s lowest-latency market data solutions to the world’s leading financial institutions. ACTIV’s services power algorithmic trading systems, auto-quoters, order management systems and professional trader desktops.
Altera
Altera's programmable solutions enable system and semiconductor companies to rapidly and cost-effectively innovate, differentiate and tailor solutions targeted at market specific-needs.
AMI
American Megatrends Inc. (AMI) works closely with the Hyper Transport (tm) Consortium (HTC), AMD and a number of HTC member companies to support and further HTC's generic HTX BIOS guidelines. AMI can help companies designing Torrenza/HTX enabled systems/subsystems.
Bay Microsystems
Bay Microsystems is the world's leading provider of 10G/40G, carrier class Network Processing and integrated Traffic Management solutions. Bay's Chesapeake NP/TM supports AMD embedded processors via HyperTransport™, further enhancing advanced network systems.
Cadence
Cadence is a provider of high value, custom analog IP including HT3.0 Phy IP in 90nm, 65nm and soon 45nm CMOS with design services and tools for mixed-signal, SOC implementation.
Celoxica
Celoxica provides software compiler, RTOS and HTX platform solutions that enable use of FPGA devices as coprocessors to achieve up to 200x performance acceleration while reducing power and cooling requirements.
Commex
Commex Technology is an x86 chipset innovator. The Commex FAAST break through architecture accelerates performance of multi-core x86 processors while reducing power consumption. The Commex chipset provides integrated 20Gbe and PCI Express.
DRC Computer
DRC Computer introduces the Reconfigurable Processor Unit (RPU™) coprocessor that plugs into a multi-way AMD Opteron processor-based system, providing direct access to DDR memory and adjacent processors at HyperTransport™ speeds and latencies.
eSilicon
eSilicon, a pioneering semiconductor Value Chain Producer (VCP), provides a comprehensive suite of design, productization and manufacturing services to OEMs and fabless semiconductor companies, enabling a flexible, low-cost, lower-risk path to volume chip production.
Flextronics
Flextronics is a leading Electronics Manufacturing Services company (EMS) that offers complete design, engineering, and manufacturing services to aerospace, automotive, computing, consumer digital, industrial, infrastructure, medical and mobile OEM customers.
GDA Technologies, Inc.
GDA assists customers in all areas of electronic design (IP/IC/Board/System). GDA is headquartered in San Jose, CA and has additional design centers in Sacramento, Boston, Chennai and Bangalore.
Lattice
LatticeSC devices provide the industry’s fastest HyperTransport™ I/O support available in an FPGA family. The high-speed I/Os, coupled with SERDES, a high performance fabric, and industry-leading embedded ASIC technology, provide designers with a powerful platform for coprocessing applications.
Liquid Computing
LiquidIQ directly connects AMD processors to its built-in interconnect via HyperTransport™ technology. This removes the traditional PCI bottlenecks that are prevalent in computing today. This feature helps deliver sustained performance needed for scalable computing and system level virtualization.
Microway
Microway's ultra-quiet WhisperStation™ with one Dual-Core Opteron processor and a maximum of three DRC FPGA Reconfigurable Processor Units connected via high speed, low latency HyperTransport™ provides high integer and floating point performance.
NetLogic Microsystems
NetLogic Microsystems’ NETL7™ content processor accelerates computationally-intensive tasks of Layer-7 deep-packet inspection and complex signature recognition at up to 10Gbps for servers, routers, switches and network security appliances.
Newisys
The Newisys Horus ASIC, which enables building large-scale, partitionable, distributed, Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) systems using AMD Opteron™ processors as building blocks, will be embedded onto an HTX expansion card.
PANTA Systems
PANTA Systems' balanced system architecture takes particular advantage of the extensibility of HyperTransport technology. We currently offer two unique solutions that leverage Torrenza's expandability: a dual-blade 16 core SMP node with up to 128GB memory as well an integrated visualization compute node.
Phoenix Technologies fosters flexibility, reliability, versatility, and security through comprehensive support of industry open standards. With robust development and debugging tools such as CoreArchitect 2, it supports AMD Torrenza, an open platform socket upgrade architecture based on HyperTransport™.
QLogic
QLogic InfiniBand provides the industry's lowest latency, highest messaging rate, and most scalable interconnect for MPI. It supports popular MPI stacks, as well as OpenFabrics/OFED for enterprise data center applications.
Rapid Mind
RapidMind provides a software development platform that allows software vendors to deliver high performance on multi-core and stream processors. RapidMind makes multi-core development as easy as single-threaded, single core programming.
RMI
RMI provides highly-integrated, power-optimized and High-Performance MIPS-Based® Processors for consumer, wireless, networking and security customers. RMI is headquartered in Cupertino, CA with offices in Texas, India, Korea, Japan, Taiwan and China.
SRC Computers
Torrenza allows SRC’s IMPLICIT+EXPLICIT Architecture to be implemented on AMD platforms. The resulting systems will use SRC’s Carte HLL programming environment and be software compatible with all other SRC systems.
Tarari
Tarari’s direct support for AMD Opteron processors via the HyperTransport™ interconnect means that our Network Security Content Processors will be guaranteed the widest possible interoperability at the fastest speeds.
3Leaf Systems
3Leaf Systems is developing a virtual computing environment to enable the dynamic allocation of resources – compute, memory, and I/O – in a manner transparent to existing operating systems, applications, data center operations, and security paradigms.
Xilinx
Xilinx Virtex field programmable gate arrays provide Torrenza and the HyperTransport™ community with the world’s highest performance and highest capacity programmable logic platforms for accelerated computing applications.
XtremeData, Inc.
XtremeData has developed a minimalist-footprint FPGA Module (XD1000™) that enables easy integration into COTS AMD Opteron processor-based systems and leverages the motherboard's existing CPU infrastructure to create a full featured coprocessor environment.