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PCI-64
PCI-SCI Adapter Card for System Area Networks
Dolphin´s PCI-SCI Adapter Card is a standard, high performance solution for clustered systems and system area network applications.
The SCI PCI-64 Adapter Card
is the high-
performance, economical way to build System Area Networks for clustering of personal computers, workstations and servers. SCI is ideal for highly available, scalable database systems and other
Features and Benefits
mission-critical enterprise servers.
• PCI 2.1 compliant, 64 bits, 33/66 MHz PCI bus
SCI's industry-leading throughput and low latency result in maximal application performance and
• ANSI/IEEE 1596-1992 Scalable Coherent
Interface (SCI) standard compliant • ANSI/IEEE 1159.1 (JTAG) support
scalability. Its 800 Mbytes/s link speed (bidirectional) makes SCI excellent at moving large volumes of data. The ultra-low 2.3 microsecond latency application-toapplication reduces the overhead of internode control
• Industry-lowest latency and high data
messages, leading to the best possible scalability for
throughput efficiently support scalable
multi-node
applications.
SCI's
performance
is
clustering applications
achieved by taking maximum advantage of fast pointto-point links, and bypassing the time consuming
• High availability operation with hot-pluggable connections and redundant PCI-SCI Cards • Application-level latency as low as 2.3µs using Remote Memory Access
operating system calls and protocol software overhead found in traditional networking approaches. For high availability requirements, SCI provides hotpluggable connections; and redundant SCI cards can be used to increase fault tolerance. Large clusters
• Supports both Direct Memory Access (DMA), Remote Memory Access (RMA) and TCP/IP • Based on LC2 and PSB
can be built using Dolphin Interconnect's compatible scalable switches.
PCI-64
Application Examples
Optional Redundant Links
SMP Server
High Availability Database Server Cluster
SMP Server
Server System Area Network Scalable Parallel Server Cluster
Switch
Servers
Switch
Servers
I/O
Storage
Technical Specifications Link Speeds
Cable Connection
Power Consumption
400 MBytes/s (800 MBytes/s duplex)
Parallel STP Copper Cable (1-5m)
Static: 5W
Parallell Optical Link PAROLI-SCI (1-150m)
Dynamic: 6W
Link Standard
Topologies
ANSI/IEEE 1596-1992 Scalable Coherent
Operating Environment
Point-to-Point and Switch Topologies
Interface (SCI)
Operating Temperature: 4˚C–32˚C
Product Code
Relative Humidity: 5%–95% non-condensing
PCI-64
PCI Specification
Altitude: 0 – 3000 meters
Product no.
64-bit, 33/66 MHz PCI Bus rev. 2.1
Performance
D320 (33 MHz PCI bus)
264 MBytes/sec operation
Up to 170 Mbytes/sec throughput
With support for daughter card
2.3 microsecond latency
D321
Dolphin Interconnect Solutions Offices:
Dolphin Headquarters USA: 3609 East Thousand Oaks Blvd, Suite 209 Westlake Village, CA 91362-3624
Dolphin USA: 111 Speen Street Framingham, MA 01701-2090
Dolphin Europe: Olaf Helsets vei 6 0621 Oslo, Norway
Internet Information: E-mail:
[email protected] World Wide Web: http://www.dolphinics.com
Phone: (805) 371-9493 Fax: (805) 371-9785
Phone: (508) 875-3030 Fax: (508) 875-1517
Phone: + 47 23 16 70 00 Fax: + 47 23 16 71 80
© 1998 by Dolphin Interconnect Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved. Specifications subject to change without notice. LinkController is a trademark of Dolphin Interconnect Solutions. All other brand or product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
