HIPPI
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HIPPI, short for High Performance Parallel Interface, is a computer bus for the attachment of high speed storage devices to supercomputers, in a point-to-point link. It was popular in the late 1980s a
Serial HIPPI fibre optic cable
Intel Paragon I/O node with HIPPI interface
Parallel HPPI interface connections
Serial GSN HIPPI-6400 fibre optic cable
InfiniBand
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InfiniBand is a computer networking standard used in high-performance computing that features very high throughput and very low latency. It is used for data interconnect both among and within computer
HIPPI
…and was never intended for mass market networks such as Ethernet. Many of the features developed for HIPPI were integrated into such technologies as InfiniBand. What is remarkable about HIPPI is that it came out when Ethernet was still a 10 Mbit/s data link and SONET at OC-3 (155 Mbit/s) was considered leading…
Infini Band Trade Association logo
InfiniBand switch with CX4/SFF-8470 connectors