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From: fpst@hubcap.clemson.edu (Steve Stevenson)
Newsgroups: comp.parallel
Subject: iWARP Info Sought
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Date: 5 Feb 91 17:58:38 GMT
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In-Reply-To: Steve Stevenson's message of Tue, 5 Feb 91 08:00:25 -0500 <9102051300.AA06299@hubcap.clemson.edu>

I'm sure he won't mind me passing this information on. For iWARP
information contact:

   Paul Wiley,
   Product Manager,
   iWarp Program,
   INTEL Corporation,
   5200 NE Elam Young Parkway,
   Hillsboro, OR 97123-6497
   email: wiley@iwarp.intel.com

yarri@rainier.eng.ohio-state.edu (Douglas Yarrington) says:

  It's basically an adaptable fine-grained integrated processor, with a
  word level interconnection scheme.

What you mean to say is: the CPU instruction set is LIW and the
communications bandwidth is 320Mb/s over 4 "links". I could go one but
there has to be someone better qualified than I to summerize the beast
(I'll do it if you persist).

The gentleman to whom you refer as "Dr Fung" is the famous H.T.Kung at
CMU. Though it should be pointed out that the iWARP is not a lot like
the original WARP machine.  It's very much like a next generation
transputer and makes the INMOS effort look rather limp - in addition I
know the iWARP is in production silicon while the H1 isn't in first
silicon yet I suspect.

For what its worth, I for one take my hat off to the iWARP team at
INTEL. I think they've done a really great job and they were certainly
looking very smug the last time I saw them.

If you want a quick overview checkout "iWARP: an integrated solution to
high speed parallel computing" in the proceddings of Supercomputing '88.

Steven
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