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The emerging High-Performance Parallel Interface — 6400 Mbit/s Physical Layer (HIPPI-6400-PH) is targeted as a local area network (LAN) or system area network (SAN), supporting data rates of 6400 Mbit/s (800 Mbytes/s). This is eight times the speed of Gigabit Ethernet. The features used and the design choices made for the data link and physical layers of HIPPI-6400 to achieve this unprecedented speed are the subject of this paper. HIPPI-6400 borrowed freely from other successful technologies such as ATM, Ethernet and the original HIPPI, taking the best features of each and melding them with some new features. HIPPI-6400 is a cost-effective reliable interconnect for distances up to 1 kilometer; it intermixes large and small messages efficiently.
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Tolmie, D.E. (1998). HIPPI-6400-Designing for Speed. In: Schaeffer, J. (eds) High Performance Computing Systems and Applications. The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 478. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5611-4_17
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