On 4/12/06, Nicolas Boulay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Super IO for x86 : gigabyte ethernet card 8 or 16 ports which are seen from > the host like one ethernet card (with pci-e speed), the card act like a big > switch (with a kind of routing). So you could make very fast interconnection > between server (imaging direct connection between calcul server and file > server).
Back in the 90's, IIRC, some engineers came up with an FPGA-based switch, and it worked brilliantly. Due to the parallelism, it could route packets part way through, dramatically reducing latency. They didn't succeed because the venture capitalists thought its design was too non-traditional and therefore too risky. To me, it's obviously a good idea. (Beware of patents.) > You could also make a SATA RAID controller. The idea is to saturate a pci-e > link (2*300 MB/s). You could do it with 8 to 16 HD. Does 3ware not fill this role well? > IO connections are the 2 domains where PC can't be compare with mainframe. > Standard (ethernet, SATA) put the cost down. What is lacking is a card to > connect the PC with the network and the HD. What can you achieve here that separate NICs and SATA cards can't? _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
