george-
I apologize if I have missed your comments on this, but in light of your thoughts on the importance of bandwidth, would appreciate your opinion on what appears to be an ascendant technology: superhippi(aka GSN):
Gigabyte Networking Begins Rolling Out
The High Performance Networking Forum (HNF) was organized to promote the
Gigabyte System NetworkTMÿ (GSNTM - an HNFÿ trademark) and High
Performance Parallel Interface (HIPPI) networking and network attached
storage standards. This industry-wide effort is committed to providing
customers with open and interoperable GSN and HIPPI solutions. The HNF
is made up of approximatelyÿ 20 organizations worldwide, including
platform vendors Compaq Computer Corporation, Silicon Graphics, and Sun
Microsystems,plus CERN, Los Alamos National Laboratories, and other
research institutions.
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Gigabyte System NetworkTM, or GSNTM, is the highest bandwidth and lowest
latency interconnect standard, providing full duplex dual 6400 megabit
(800 megabyte) per second of error-free, flow controlled data. The
technology is ideal wherever organizations require timely movement of
large amounts of information including scientific and technical
computing, HDTV, data mining, transaction processing, video and film
archiving, and storage management.ÿ The proposed ANSI standard provides
for interoperability with Ethernet, Fibre Channel, ATM, HIPPI-800 and
other standards.
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Last Updated: 10-Sep-1998 ddw
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