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Article #45Re: IPI-2 questions
From: Ted Goldblatt
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 23:27
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 23:27
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In article <ADAMS.92Jul16125743@PDV2.pdv2.fmr.maschinenbau.th-darmstadt.de> adams@pdv2.fmr.maschinenbau.th-darmstadt.de (Adams) writes:
>
>Perhaps we should compare future developments of the SCSI bus with
>expected replacement of IPI-Bus, SCI by CERN, Switzerland. This is
>targeted to 2 GBytes/s [in words: 2048 MBytes/s]. ;->
>
2 comments, 1 nit and 1 not :-)
nit: SCI is an IEEE standard (IEEE 1596) that a group at CERN is
working on. It is not _by_ CERN.
not: SCI is in no way a replacement for IPI or any other I/O
bus. SCI is a processor/memory interconnect (i.e., if it
replaces anything, it replaces the system's _memory_ bus)
intended for large to very large coherent shared memory
multiprocessors. While I'm sure it can (and will) be used
for other things, I don't think that an I/O bus replacement
is one of them.
ted
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