High-speed connections for storage systems; HIPPI, fibre channel, and ATM: Whats happening?

Conference · Sat Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 1995

OSTI ID:114502

Tolmie, D E

A group of eight Digital Equipment Corporation Alpha workstations is interconnected with ATM to form a cluster with supercomputer power. For output, each workstation drives a single ``tile`` on an 8-tile high-resolution frame buffer. A special purpose adapter is used to convert the workstation`s ATM format to the frame buffer`s HIPPI format. This paper discusses the rationale behind the workstation farm, and then describes the visualization output path in detail. To provide the system quickly, special emphasis was placed on making the design as simple as possible. The design choices are examined, and the resultant system is described. The oral presentation will include operational experiences.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• OSTI ID: 114502
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-95-994; CONF-951207-4; ON: DE95009415
• Resource Relation: Conference: ACM/IEEE-CS supercomputing conference, San Diego, CA (United States), 4-8 Dec 1995; Other Information: DN: Contains article by D.E. Tolmie, A.G. Dornhoff, A.G. and A.J. DuBois: An ATM-based workstation cluster driving a HIPPI-based HDTV frame buffer; PBD: [1995]
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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