HIPPI-6400 -- Designing for speed
The emerging High Performance Parallel Interface 6400 Mbit/s interface (HIPPI-6400), is targeted as a local area network (LAN), or system area network (SAN), supporting data rates of 6400 Mbit/s (800 Mbyte/s). This is eight times the speed of Gigabit Ethernet. The features used, and the design choices made, for the data link and physical layers of HIPPI-6400, to achieve this unprecedented speed are the subject of this paper. HIPPI-6400 borrowed freely from other successful technologies such as ATM, Ethernet and the original HIPPI -- taking the best features of each and melding them with some new features. HIPPI-6400 is a cost effective reliable interconnect for distances up to 1 km; it intermixes large and small messages efficiently.
- 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:
- 650333
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-97-4906; CONF-980544-; ON: DE98004383; TRN: AHC2DT04%%246
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 12. annual international symposium on high performance computing systems and applications, Edmonton (Canada), 20-22 May 1998; Other Information: PBD: Mar 1998
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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