The Sun Fireplane SMP interconnect in the Sun Fire 3800-6800

Proceedings - Symposium on the High Performance Interconnects, Hot Interconnects

Volumn 2001-January, Issue , 2001, Pages 37-42

  Charlesworth, A ^a  

^a SUN MICROSYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

Bandwidth; Broadcasting; Clocks; Delay; Fires; Integrated circuit interconnections; Packet switching; Protocols; Sun; Switching circuits

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BROADCASTING; CHOPPERS (CIRCUITS); CLOCKS; DELAY CIRCUITS; FIRES; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PACKET SWITCHING; SUN; SWITCHING CIRCUITS;

CACHE COHERENCY; DELAY; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT INTERCONNECTIONS; PERFORMANCE AND SCALABILITIES; SYMMETRIC MULTI-PROCESSORS;

INTEGRATED CIRCUIT INTERCONNECTS;

EID: 0042589119     PISSN: 15504794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HIS.2001.946691     Document Type: Conference Paper

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