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Introduction

Networking offerings at SuperComputing-94 could be classified into the following categories:

The focus of this technical summary is on the networking technologies used to implement some SPP interconnection networks, input/output (I/O) networks, computer clusters, and traditional LAN/MAN/WAN capabilities. Most technologies discussed here relate in a broad sense to clustering computers into SPP architectures for (heterogeneous) distributed computing, although it is conceivable that distributed computing may extend over WAN distances. While MPP interconnection networks are of interest to those developing algorithms, this paper does not address these proprietary networking architectures.





David P. Koester
Sun Oct 22 13:05:27 EDT 1995