Supercomputer network selection: a case study
Abstract
With the purchase of a Cray-2 supercomputer, Eli Lilly and Company (Lilly) needed a high performance network to provide communications with this computer. At the time of installation of the Cray, this network had to provide access from VAX/VMS computers using Cray Station software while also supporting communications from UNIX and other machines utilizing TCP/IP. The capability of access from other computers, especially IBM mainframes, was also desirable in the longer term. Finally, this network needed to have a migration path to standards-based networks in the future, including the Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI), and the High Performance Parallel Interface (HPPI). This paper tells the story of the process used in selecting this network.
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November 1990
982 pages
ISBN:0897914120
- Co-chairs:
- Daniel V. Pryor,
- Gary Montry,
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- Joanne L. Martin
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- SIGARCH: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture
- IEEE-CS: Computer Society
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IEEE Computer Society Press
Washington, DC, United States
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Published: 01 October 1990
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SC '90: International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis
November 12 - 16, 1990
New York, New York, USA
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