The Virtual Interface Architecture

Don Cameron, Greg Regnier

204 pages, parution le 17/04/2002

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Résumé

This book explains how Virtual Interface provides a new interface between applications and switched interconnect hardware. Just as Virtual Memory allowed personal computers to break through physical memory limitations, Virtual Interface solves the long-standing problem of efficiently interfacing general-purpose computers to high-speed switched networks. This book shows how implementing Virtual Interface can lower overhead by two orders of magnitude and reduce latency for I/O and communications traffic.

The Virtual Interface Architecture provides guidance for both developers and users of large clustered systems:

Software designers can discover ways to exploit the Virtual Interface Architecture's capabilities and gain a competitive advantage offered by InfiniBand, which includes Virtual Interface Architecture concepts.
Software designers can learn to develop the necessary drivers, middleware, and applications for Virtual Interface Architecture-based systems.
Chief Technical Officers and system architects of corporate enterprises and Internet Service Providers can gain the background information to plan for deployment of Virtual Interface Architecture in corporate systems.

Virtual Interface Architecture is related to InfiniBand Architecture, a specification for I/O fabric that includes electrical and mechanical configurations of the physical media, supported operations and semantics, and management interface. InfiniBand does not include an API but does include many concepts of the Virtual Interface Architecture .

The authors were members of the core architecture team that developed Virtual Interface Architecture within Intel. Both are significant contributors to the Virtual Interface Architecture, a published specification developed by Intel, Compaq, and Microsoft.

Contents

Preface

Introduction
Historical Background and Architectural Roots
Principles of Operation
The VIA Specification
Memory Translation and Protection
VIPL Made Simple
Industry Activity
Applications
InfiniBand Architecture
Conclusions
VIPL Calls

References
Index

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Intel Press
Auteur(s)	Don Cameron, Greg Regnier
Parution	17/04/2002
Nb. de pages	204
Format	19 x 23
Couverture	Broché
Poids	437g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780971288706