[comp.dcom.lans] Information about HPPI and FDDI II

akumar@prism.poly.edu (anil kumar) (05/16/91)

Does anyone have information on the inside details of HPPI (also called 
HIPPI)? The information about companies marketing related products will 
also be very relevant.

Moreover I am interesting in finding out which all companies have products
available or going to be available in two or three years for FDDI II.


Thanks in anticipation.
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Anil Kumar (akumar@prism.poly.edu)      (718) 834 8890.

hastings+@andrew.cmu.edu (Eugene F. Hastings) (05/17/91)

For information about HiPPI (nee HPPI, nee HSC) look in journals like
Supercomputing Review. HiPPI can be considered as an electrical interface which
you do arbitrary things on, so there are vendors working on network products
which use HiPPI as well as for Mass Storage. Specific vendors who have products
are: Ultra Network Technologies, Network Systems Corp, and Maximum
Strategy Corp., with more crawling out of the woodwork all the time.
Machines you can
connect with HiPPI include Crays, Connection Machines and IBM 3090s.

Gene Hastings
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
hastings@psc.edu