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SCI: Scalable Coherent Interface

Architecture and Software for High-Performance Compute Clusters

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  • © 1999

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Editors:
  1. Hermann Hellwagner

    1. Department of Business Informatics & Application Systems, Department of Information Technology, University Klagenfurt, Austria

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  2. Alexander Reinefeld

    1. Zuse Institute Berlin,  

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  • Complete and complementary coverage of the whole hardware/software spectrum of SCI clusters by leading experts!
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 1734)

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Table of contents (36 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. SCI and Competitive Interconnects for Cluster Computing

    1. SCI and Competitive Interconnects for Cluster Computing

      • Hermann Hellwagner, Alexander Reinefeld
      Pages 1-2

    2. The SCI Standard and Applications of SCI

      • Hermann Hellwagner
      Pages 3-37

    3. A Comparison of Three Gigabit Technologies: SCI, Myrinet and SGI/Cray T3D

      • Christian Kurmann, Thomas Stricker
      Pages 39-68

    4. SCI Hardware

      • Hermann Hellwagner, Alexander Reinefeld
      Pages 69-70

  3. SCI Hardware

    1. Dolphin SCI Adapter Cards

      • Marius Christian Liaaen, Hugo Kohmann
      Pages 71-87

    2. The TUM PCI/SCI Adapter

      • Georg Acher, Wolfgang Karl, Markus Leberecht
      Pages 89-101

    3. Interconnection Networks with SCI

      • Hermann Hellwagner, Alexander Reinefeld
      Pages 103-104

  4. Interconnection Networks with SCI

    1. Low-Level SCI Protocols and Their Application to Flexible Switches

      • Andreas C. Döring, Wolfgang Obelöer, Gunther Lustig, Erik Maehle
      Pages 105-123

    2. SCI Rings, Switches, and Networks for Data Acquisition Systems

      • Harald Richter, Richard Kleber, Matthias Ohlenroth
      Pages 125-149

    3. Scalability of SCI Ringlets

      • Geir Horn
      Pages 151-166

    4. Affordable Scalability Using Multi-Cubes

      • Håkon Bugge, Knut Omang
      Pages 167-175

    5. Device Driver Software and Low-Level APIs

      • Hermann Hellwagner, Alexander Reinefeld
      Pages 177-178

  5. Device Driver Software and Low-Level APIs

    1. Interfacing SCI Device Drivers to Linux

      • Roger Butenuth, Hans-Ulrich Heiss
      Pages 179-190

    2. SCI Physical Layer API

      • Volker Lindenstruth, David B. Gustavson
      Pages 191-205

    3. Message Passing Libraries

      • Hermann Hellwagner, Alexander Reinefeld
      Pages 207-208

  6. Message Passing Libraries

    1. SCI Sockets Library

      • Hermann Hellwagner, Josef Weidendorfer
      Pages 209-229

    2. TCP/IP over SCI under Linux

      • Hüseyin Taskin, Roger Butenuth
      Pages 231-237

    3. PVM for SCI Clusters

      • Markus Fischer, Alexander Reinefeld
      Pages 239-248

    4. ScaMPI – Design and Implementation

      • L. P. Huse, K. Omang, H. Bugge, H. Ry, A. T. Haugsdal, E. Rustad
      Pages 249-261
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About this book

Scalable Coherent Interface (SCI) is an innovative interconnect standard (ANSI/IEEE Std 1596-1992) addressing the high-performance computing and networking domain. This book describes in depth one specific application of SCI: its use as a high-speed interconnection network (often called a system area network, SAN) for compute clusters built from commodity workstation nodes. The editors and authors, coming from both academia and industry, have been instrumental in the SCI standardization process, the development and deployment of SCI adapter cards, switches, fully integrated clusters, and software systems, and are closely involved in various research projects on this important interconnect. This thoroughly cross-reviewed state-of-the-art survey covers the complete hardware/software spectrum of SCI clusters, from the major concepts of SCI, through SCI hardware, networking, and low-level software issues, various programming models and environments, up to tools and application experiences.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Business Informatics & Application Systems, Department of Information Technology, University Klagenfurt, Austria

    Hermann Hellwagner

  • Zuse Institute Berlin,  

    Alexander Reinefeld

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