Commercial Member Quotes
Advantest America, Inc.
“Advantest’s industry-leading
test technology is well-suited for testing fast, innovative interfaces such
as HyperTransport, and our knowledge and experience will enable us to make
significant technological contributions to the Consortium,” said R. Keith
Lee, chief executive officer and president of Advantest America, Inc. “We
value a collaborative partnership to advance the industry and sustain a healthy
business environment, and look forward to our participation as a member of
the HyperTransport Consortium.”
Cadence
“Our goal is to empower designers to create leading-edge integrated
circuits, boards and systems through our industry-leading EDA technologies
and services,” said Tim Henricks, vice president for Services at
Cadence. “Our
customers recognize the significant performance advantages that the HyperTransport
interconnect offers, and our Consortium membership ensures we provide them
with proper validation tools and technologies required to meet their performance
and ease-of-design needs.”
Dell
“Our enterprise customers expect standards-based solutions that deliver
top performance and processor scalability, combined with optimized cost of
ownership,” said Kevin Kettler, chief technology officer, Dell. “By
incorporating HyperTransport technology in many of our industry-leading server
and desktop products, we continue to deliver innovative systems that meet
customers’ requirements for high performance and scalable configurations.”
eSilicon Corporation
“With the increasing adoption and benefits of HyperTransport technology,
many of our customers are interested in integrating HyperTransport IP into
their designs,” said Hugh Durdan, vice president of marketing at eSilicon
Corporation. “As a company that designs, productizes
and manufactures chips on behalf of our customers, our membership in the
Consortium will help eSilicon monitor and influence developments in this
space, so we can quickly address market requirements.”
Compunetics, Inc.
“Our NovaSpeed™ glass fabric is a breakthrough glass fiber reinforcement
PCB technology that significantly enhances signal integrity and propagation
in digital designs operating in multi-GigaHertz clock rate space”,
said Russell Dudek, technology specialist at Compunetics, Inc.,
a world-class leader in the fabrication of highly complex printed circuit
boards. “The HyperTransport Consortium ecosystem of high-performance
technology suppliers represents a tremendous test bed and window of opportunities
for our state-of-the-art PCB technology.”
Lattice
“HyperTransport technology is central to our strategy of ensuring that
customers have the IP cores they need to rapidly deploy performance-leading
systems in a variety of markets such as networking and computing,” said
Stan Kopec, Lattice’s corporate vice president of
marketing. “Our high-level membership in the Consortium enables
us to influence the direction of the standard and to gain the advanced visibility
on HyperTransport developments that will give us the ability to meet our
customers’ present and future performance objectives.”
Samtec
“As a maker of high-speed interconnection products, Samtec believes
that membership in the HyperTransport Consortium better enables us to support
our most technically demanding customers,” said David Givens, development
manager of Samtec. “Our Consortium membership
significantly expands Samtec’s ability to advise industry-leading system
designers with a critical eye on Signal Integrity and high-density interconnection.”
Verigy
“HyperTransport interface technology pushes the boundaries of high speed
device-to-device interfaces, creating new testing challenges for our customers,” said
Keith Barnes, chief executive officer and president, Verigy. “Our
participation in the Consortium began while we were still part of Agilent
so this is a natural continuation of our involvement and reflects our ongoing
commitment to meeting the industry's need for advanced test solutions.”
Violin Memory, Inc.
“HyperTransport will enable tighter integration into computing
environments for our Memory Appliance products and technologies,” said
DonPaul Stephens, president and founder of Violin Memory, Inc. “We
look forward to working with the Consortium on our next-generation products.” ”
Academic Member Quotes
Georgia Tech
“High-performance interconnect technology is a crucial enabler for effectively
coupling commodity accelerators to multi-core systems," said Sudhakar
Yalamanchili, the Joseph M. Pettit Professor in the Georgia Tech
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. "Membership in the HyperTransport
Consortium provides academics with invaluable intellectual and engineering
insights into a leading interconnect standard and the ecosystem that surrounds
it. Such insights and interactions have a tremendous positive influence on
our research and curricular activities.”
Simula Research Laboratory
“We are thrilled to be a member of the Hypertransport Consortium -- one
of the most important forums for any academic researcher with interests in
interconnection networks,” said Olav Lysne, professor and director
of research at Simula Research Laboratory. “Our
membership provides us with very up-to-date knowledge on the progress of
the most important interconnect technology in the industry, and gives us
the opportunity to participate in discussions with an immensely strong and
knowledgeable group of researchers and engineers.”
Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona
“With its low latency and high bandwidth interconnect, HyperTransport
technology provides the high-performance interconnect links we require,” said
Daniel Franco, professor of the Computer Achitecture and Operating Systems
(CAOS) group at the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona. “These
high-performance links empower our in-depth research into the configuration
and evaluation of high-performance computer architecture, as well as our
dynamic resource management studies of interconnection systems.”
University of Hannover
“As a member of the Consortium, we look forward to collaborating with
other members to further advance the standard,” said Konstantin Septinus,
research member of the Institute of Microelectronic Systems at the
University of Hannover. “We bring extensive expertise to the Consortium,
which will help us to evaluate related I/O interfacing implementations and
influence the future direction of the standard.”
University of Murcia
“Our advanced research in the areas of multiprocessor architectures,
such as scalable cache-coherent protocols for cc-NUMAs, and chip multiprocessor
architectures, including fault-tolerant designs, coherence protocols and
power consumption, will benefit significantly through the use of HyperTransport
technology,” said Jose Manuel Garcia Carrasco, professor of the Parallel
Computer Architecture Group at the University of
Murcia. “We expect to develop more efficient and scalable
cache-coherent protocols using HyperTransport, and believe that our membership
will keep us informed of the latest technological developments.” ”
Dzemal Bijedic University
“We believe that HyperTransport technology has a great impact on the
computer systems architecture in general,” said Leid Zejnilovic, research
member of Computer Systems Architecture Laboratory and professor
at Dzemal Bijedic University. “By joining the Consortium, we gained
access to member-only technical information that will enrich our teaching
capacity and influence research at our recently established lab. In addition,
by attending Consortium events, we gain the opportunity to learn something
new and make contacts with other academic and industry members. This
will significantly help our development and international cooperation.”
Institute of Computer Science of FORTH
“High-speed interconnects are the backbone of current and future computing
systems, where more and more processors work closely together;” said
Manolis Katevenis, head of the Computer Architecture and VLSI Systems Laboratory,
Institute of Computer Science of FORTH. “Our institute has been
conducting research in this area for over 20 years, enabling us to make significant
technical contributions to the Consortium.”
University of Castilla La Mancha
“We look forward to working with the HyperTransport Consortium’s
Technical Working Group to develop and submit technical proposals that will
advance the standard,” said Paco Quiles, professor at the University
of Castilla La Mancha. “Our extensive experience in
advanced interconnect technology will enable us to work closely with other
Consortium members and contribute considerably toward the progress of the
HyperTransport standard.”
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