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Historically there have been almost as many System Area Network (SAN) designs as there are parallel computing researchers. However, as markets mature, standards evolve. The personal computing industry is working towards a low-level, OS bypass API for leveraging arbitrary SANs from Windows NT. This new API is called the “Virtual Inter- face Architecture”. VI is protocol independent. Extracting optimal performance from VI requires special hardware support at the network interface chip (NIC) level.
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Lund, C. (1998). Embedded Systems Standards. In: Yalamanchili, S., Duato, J. (eds) Parallel Computer Routing and Communication. PCRCW 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1417. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-69352-1_11
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