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From: hplabs!vandys@hpisoa1.hp.com (Andrew Valencia)
Newsgroups: comp.parallel
Subject: Re: Networking PC-ATs
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Date: 19 Jul 88 13:09:50 GMT
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>I am currently interested in networking 20 to 30, PC-AT's, 
>(286 or 386 boards) with rather large interboard communications
>requirements, as a part of an experimental project investigating
>fault tolerant processing.  Suppose I were to have 6, 386 boxes,
>functioning as database servers, (perhaps with replicated data),
>and 24 286 boxes as clients.  Each 286 box requires 50K bytes/sec
>of data transfer, (to and from the servers), in say 10K byte chunks.

    Depending on how risky you want to be, you might check out Gary
Delp's Memnet work at UDel.  He used a 80 Mb/S token ring with a shared
memory paradigm.  They had two cards working and a third being wrapped
when I visited.  His performance parameters made interesting reading.

				Andy Valencia