Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: blum@ira.uka.de (Joachim Blum)
Subject: Re: workstation clusters
Organization: IPD, University of Karlsruhe, FRG
Date: 3 Sep 1996 12:28:40 GMT
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In article <322733E2.3FB@atcorp.com>, "Sid S. Takkella" <stakkella@atcorp.com> writes:
|> I am hunting for PCI interface cards to cluster workstations over a 
|> dedicated high speed network.  I found one from dolphin, which they say 
|> will be available by year end.  I was wondering if there are any such 
|> cards from other vendors.  Any pointers will be appreciated.
|> 
There is another high speed communication card on market since last November.
It's call ParaStation and it was developed at the University of Karlsruhe.
The PCI interface card is licenced to a company called Hitex, so it is
now available for everybody.

Some feature are:
* Dedicated parallel network for the paralle applications
* full user space communication
* several processes on a single node
* several programming interfaces: propriatary, Unix-sockets, PVM, MPI, P4 etc. 
* high throughput (proprietary 15,5 MByte/s, TCP sockets 12 MByte/s)
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* low latency: proprietary 2 microsec, TCP 16 microsec !!!!!!
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* PCI interface card fits into Intel PCs, Dec Alphas, PowerPCs, UltraSparcs etc
* currently supported Operating Systems: (work for others are in progress)
      Linux on Alphas and PCs
      Dec OSF/1 on ALphas
      Windows NT on ALphas and PCs

For more information please contact me or look at our homepage:
http://wwwipd.ira.uka.de/parastation

Greetings
         Joe
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