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To: George Dawson who wrote (14781)	3/1/1998 1:08:00 AM
From: George Dawson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29386

From the Barnes and Noble browser: Went through the Barnes and Noble networking section again. This time no FC stuff. Seems like the print media lags behind what is available on the net. Short of Dr. Benner's book there are not a lot of attempts to organize the current information. There are books about data warehousing, data mining, and distributed information systems - but they all seem to be written from the perspective of the non IT administrator or software. Absolutely nothing about FC hardware. I did find two great books: *Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach* by John L. Hennessey and David L. Patterson (2nd edition, Morgan Kauffman Publishers, San Francisco 1996). This book has great information on I/O, networks, supercomputers, switch topologies and yes, latency. It provides hundreds of examples, so you can check your calculations against theirs. *In Search of Clusters* by Gregory F. Pfister (Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ 1998). Everything you need to know about clusters and cluster connects (cluster-cluster and cluster-disk). It also describes a number of proprietary systems. Good reading. George D.

To: George Dawson who wrote (14781)	3/1/1998 2:46:00 AM
From: MrBuzz	Respond to of 29386

Here are some topics slated for the upcoming Networld+Interop '98 in May 4-8 at Las Vegas. Ancor Communications is on the exhibitors list. Storage Area Networks Moderator: Alistair Black Gadzoox Corporation The biggest challenge faced by network administrators is keeping their systems working while addressing increasing demands and shorter timelines, all with fewer resources. Everyone hates to hear "the system's down," especially the IT/IS deparment. Downtime causes productivity losses and increases costs for daily operations and customer service. Storage Area Networks isolate stored information from the local area network (LAN), eliminating or minimizing downtime. At the same time, the SAN interconnects storage and allows multiple users to access stored information from a variety of systems disk, tape, remote, etc.). This isolates the LAN from storage archival and retrieval activity, but keeps your stored information readily accessible to network users. The expert participants in this session will discuss the components of SAN, explore its proper implementation and deployment and help you uncover potential costs and benefits of this new technology. Gigabit and ATM Network Architectures Dr. Craig Partridge BBN Technologies Research and market forces are rapidly making gigabit networks a reality. In this tutorial, the instructor surveys research and the emerging market for gigabit products to present a comprehensive study of gigabit and near-gigabit networking technologies such as ATM, WDM, FIBRE CHANNEL, and HIPPI. Learn about the world of gigabit networking and how high-bandwidth networking is starting to change today's networks. Find out how high-bandwidth will affect protocols and applications in the future and see how gigabit networks can be used to support networked multimedia aplicatoins to the workstations and PCs of the fture. Case studies will be used to illustrate key points. Syllabus * Gigabit applications * Gigabit media: Sending at gigabit rates over fiber, microwave and satellite link repeaters * Cell switching: B-ISDN, ATM, non-ATM cell networks, adaptation layers * Packet networks: HIPPI, ATOMIC, Fibre Channel Gigabit ethernet at gigabit speeds * Congestion and flow control: Supporting multimedia applications and real-time traffic requirements in gigabit networks * Existing protocols: RPC and TCP/IP at gigabit speeds; integrating computers with high speed networks Textbook Provided Gigabit Networking, Craig Partridge, Addison-Wesley, 1994 Who should attend: * Engineers, researchers, managers and planners * Anyone wanting to know more about high performance networks