HIPPI - SGI

[James Symon]

A few people have asked me to post a summary of responses to my query
about the availability of a HIPPI interface to SGI machines.

A company called Network Systems builds a HIPPI - VMEbus board. They
are working with SGI and people at NCSA in Illinois to perfect an
installation of the board in an SGI VMEbus backplane. I believe they
expect to have it available sometime this summer.

Of course, there's no way that a VMEbus installation could make use of
the full HIPPI bandwidth but at least it's a connection. I think SGI
is hoping for something around 80 - 100 Mbits per second throughput.

If you're interested in HIPPI more than SGI, Network Systems has on
the back burner a project to build a HIPPI interface to the 2.4Gbps
backplane of Sun's new graphics engine, the VX/MVX system. Still
vaporware unfortunately.

Jim Symon
symon at radonc.unc.edu
symon at cs.unc.edu
(919) 966-7710