High Performance Parallel Interface
<hardware, standard> (HIPPI, previously HPPI) A connection-oriented,
point-to-point networking standard using circuit-switching technology at a speed
of 800 Mbits/s or 1.6 Gbits/s (simplex or full-duplex). HIPPI is often used for
short distances (up to 10km depending on cable type) to connect a supercomputer
to routers, frame buffers, mass-storage peripherals and other computers.
HIPPI was developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory and is now ANSI standard
X3T9/88-127. Standards for interconnecting with ATM, SONet, and fibre channel
are in development.
HIPPI Networking Forum.
(1997-06-29)
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High Speed Circuit Switched Data
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