Scalable coherent interface: Links to the future
- Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Dolphin Server Technology A.S., Oslo (Norway)
Now that the Scalable Coherent Interface (SCI) has solved the bandwidth problem, what can we use it for? SCI was developed to support closely coupled multiprocessors and their caches in a distributed shared-memory environment, but its scalability and the efficient generality of its architecture make it work very well over a wide range of applications. It can replace a local area network for connecting workstations on a campus. It can be powerful I/O channel for a supercomputer. It can be the processor-cache-memory-I/O connection in a highly parallel computer. It can gather data from enormous particle detectors and distribute it among thousands of processors. It can connect a desktop microprocessor to memory chips a few millimeters away, disk drivers a few meters away, and servers a few kilometers away.
- Research Organization:
- Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC03-76SF00515
- OSTI ID:
- 10134403
- Report Number(s):
- SLAC-PUB-5699; CONF-920237-2; ON: DE92010728
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: COMPCON `92,San Francisco, CA (United States),24-28 Feb 1992; Other Information: PBD: Nov 1991
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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