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To: George Dawson who wrote (19826)	12/19/1998 11:59:00 AM
From: George Dawson	Respond to of 29386

There is also a good link to a view of what appears to be HIPPI based computing fabrics eventually taking over everything. I am joking in part. Although the computing fabrics are conceptualized here as eventually extending from the processor to out over the network - much of the specific hardware that I can find on this site is HIPPI based: infomaniacs.com They have the usual links to SGI/Cray. George D.

To: George Dawson who wrote (19826)	12/19/1998 12:20:00 PM
From: nic	Respond to of 29386

Why isn't anybody working on it? George, how do we know? Remember Craig complaining about the lack of an 8-port switch? ;-) The adapter aside, do you forsee any fundamental difficulties in transporting Hippi through an FC fabric? What's to keep SGI from developing a GSN solution that looks like Hippi, smells like Hippi, but is actually FC? Is there anything that would make such an approach inherently inefficient or expensive? Wish I knew more about hardware & networking. I know I'm out on a limb here, but maybe the price/performance of the new switch is turning heads even outside the FC community? Now that it's becoming obvious that FC will be a major standard, leveraging of (comparatively) commodity FC parts in their own niche might begin to figure in the strategic plans of non-FC networking players... - nic