HiPPI-6400/Gigabyte System Network
The first gigabit/sec standard network channel, the High
Performance Parallel Interface was
originally developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory and became an
ANSI standard for sustained transmission of either 800 or 1600 bits
per second.
The successor to original HiPPI, HiPPI-6400 is ANSI's
highest-bandwidth, lowest latency standard network channel,
delivering 6.4 gigabits/sec over an error-correcting link. HiPPI-6400
was developed by a consortium of supercomputer vendors, developers,
and users, and is known commercially as the Gigabyte System Network.
The Gigabyte System Network Analyzer (GSNA), under development by the
Advanced
Development Team of CCN-5, is the latest HiPPI project for the
Laboratory. This technology is vital to the GSN system as it will
become an indispensable tool for network maintenance and
troubleshooting. The GSNA will analyze a full GSN stream (one packet
every 40 µseconds), checking for standard errors and pattern
sequences. The full functionality of the GSNA will be available via
a standard 10/100BaseT Ethernet connection to any machine with an
internet browser, making the analyzer a robust, simple, and portable
solution. Click on the following links for more information on the
functionality
and web interface
of the analyzer.
