ServerNet

History

ServerNet was an implementation of the Virtual Interface Architecture developed by Intel, Compaq and Tandem. ServerNet was based on the fault tolerant low latency interconnect used in Tandem NonStop fault tolerant computer systems. It had a PCI interface with drivers for Windows and Linux on Intel and Alpha based computers. It was not successful as a commercial product but concepts (from VIA) and personnel contributed to the subsequent development of InfiniBand.

References

W. E. Baker, et al., "A Flexible ServerNet-based Fault-Tolerant Architecture," in Proc. 25th Int. Symp. Fault-Tolerant Computing, Pasadena, CA, June 27-30 1995.

R. Horst, "ServerNet Deadlock Avoidance and Fractahedral Topologies," in Proc. 10th Int'l Parallel Processing Symposium, Honolulu, Hawaii, pp. 274-280, 1995.

R. Horst and D. Garcia, "ServerNet SAN I/O Architecture," Proc. Hot Interconnects V, August 1997.

D.R Avresky, V. Shurbanov, R. Horst, “The effect of router arbitration policy on scalability of ServerNet Topologies,” Microprocessors and Microsystems 21, pp 545-561, 1998.

D.R Avresky, V. Shurbanov, R. Horst, W. Watson, L. Young, D. Jewett. “Performance Modeling of ServerNet SAN Topologies,” Journal of Supercomputing, V. 14, pp. 19-37, 1999.

D.R Avresky, V. Shurbanov, R. Wilkinson, R. Horst, W. Watson, L. Young, “ Maximum delivery time and hot spots in ServerNet topologies, Computer Networks 31, pp. 1891-1910, 1999.

A. Hossain, S. Kang, R. Horst, “ ServerNet and ATM Interconnects: Comparison for Compressed Video Transmission,” Journal of Communications and Networks, V. 1 No. 2, June 1999.