High-speed connections for storage systems; HIPPI, fibre channel, and ATM: Whats happening?
Don E. Tolmie · University of North Texas Digital Library (University of North Texas) · 1995
A group of eight Digital Equipment Corporation Alpha workstations is interconnected with ATM to form a cluster with supercomputer power. For output, each workstation drives a single ``tile`` on an 8-tile high-resolution frame buffer. A special purpose adapter is used to convert the workstation`s ATM format to the frame buffer`s HIPPI format. This paper discusses the rationale behind the workstation farm, and then describes the visualization output path in detail. To provide the system quickly, special emphasis was placed on making the design as simple as possible. The design choices are examined, and the resultant system is described. The oral presentation will include operational experiences.