DocumentCode
451089
Title
The Starfire SMP Interconnect
Author
Charlesworth, Alan ; Aneshansley, Nicholas ; Haakmeester, Mark ; Drogichen, Dan ; Gilbert, Gary ; Williams, Ricki ; Phelps, Andrew
Author_Institution
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
fYear
1997
fDate
15-21 Nov. 1997
Firstpage
37
Lastpage
37
Abstract
The Starfire Ultra Enterprise 10000 extends the envelope of UNIX SMP systems in several dimensions. Interconnect: It uses four address routers and a 16x16 data crossbar to provide 64 UltraSPARC processors with uniform-memory access at a bandwidth of 10,667 MBps. Flexibility: Starfire can be dynamically reconfigured into multiple hardware-protected operating system domains. Robustness: specially-connected workstation orchestrates service activities. Failing boards can be hot-swapped without interrupting system operation. ECC is carried on both address and data paths. Performance: Starfire has set several TPC-D decision- support benchmark records. It delivers a respectable 21 Gflops on Linpack-parallel.
Keywords
Bandwidth; Clocks; Costing; Delay; Equations; Microprocessors; Operating systems; Robustness; Springs; Sun;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Supercomputing, ACM/IEEE 1997 Conference
Print_ISBN
0-89791-985-8
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/SC.1997.10060
Filename
1592618
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