goldstei@MITRE.ARPA (Steve Goldstein) (07/18/88)
Folks, June '88 Defense Science (pg 18) tells of LANL's High Speed Channel development by Don Tolmie, Michael McGowen, and Gene Dornhoff. "The HSC appears headed toward quick adoption as a computer industry standard. ... HSC is a package of wires that carries about 800 million bits of computer information each second ... Tolmie says the superfast link has attracted the interest of 80 manufacturers ... including ... IBM, Digital, and Cray... American National Standards Istitute... is expected to make it an industry standard for high-speed computer communic- ations by late 1988...The HSC is surprisingly simple in concept and design... iMcGowen ... and the others adaptedn a ... link they had been using for about 10 years, making it shorter, doubling its wires, and increasing the speed.And by converting ... to fiber optics, ...their distances can be increased almost indefinitely" I guess I have been asleep at the switch. Anybody have any info/thoughts to share on this development? How does it fit into the IP world (or does it)? All info appreciated--even flames for my being so out of touch! e
CERF@A.ISI.EDU (07/22/88)
The IAB got a full briefing on the LANL work by Don Tolmie. They have developed a hrdware standard for linking computers with 800 Mb/s cross-bar switches. The standard is the interface between the computer and the switch and is going through ANSI standardization. The design uses multi-port RAMS. Do you have Tolmie's address/phone at LANL? It is worth calling him. Vint
goldstei@MITRE.ARPA (Steve Goldstein) (07/23/88)
Vint, "Do you have Tolmie's address/phone at LANL?" No, I don't. Can/will you oblige? Thanks, Steve