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The SCI Standard and Applications of SCI

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Scalable Coherent Interface (SCI) is an innovative interconnect standard (ANSI/IEEE Std 1596-1992 [26]) that addresses the high-performance computing and networking domain. This book describes in depth one specific application of SCI, namely its use as a high-speed interconnection network (often called a system area network) for compute clusters built from commodity workstation nodes. Yet, SCI’s original design does not specifically address this segment and several other applications of SCI have been devised and realized.

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Hellwagner, H. (1999). The SCI Standard and Applications of SCI. In: Hellwagner, H., Reinefeld, A. (eds) SCI: Scalable Coherent Interface. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1734. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10704208_2

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