Dolphin Interconnect Announces High-Performance Clustering Support for Novell NetWare 5 and NetWare 6.Business Editors WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 13, 2001 Dolphin Scalable Coherent Interface (hardware, protocol) Scalable Coherent Interface - (SCI) The ANSI/IEEE 1596-1992 standard that defines a point-to-point interface and a set of packet protocols. The SCI protocols use packets with a 16-byte header and 16, 64, or 256 data bytes. (SCI (Scalable Coherent Interface) An IEEE standard for a high-speed bus that uses wire or fiber-optic cable. It can transfer data up to 1GBytes/sec. (hardware) SCI - 1. Scalable Coherent Interface. 2. UART. ) Technology Offers Users Scaleable High-Performance Clustering Interconnect Solutions Dolphin Interconnect, a leading manufacturer of high-speed, high-bandwidth interconnect products based on the scalable coherent interface (SCI), today announced SCI high-performance clustering support for Novell NetWare 5 and NetWare 6 platforms. Dolphin is releasing NetWare Loadable Modules (NLMs) that support Novell's Cluster Services for Dolphin's range of PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). to SCI interconnect cards such as the 32Bit/33MHz PSB PSB Pet Shop Boys (band) PSB Public Service Broadcasting (radio and television) PSB Public Service Board (Vermont) PSB Public Security Bureau (China) 32, 64Bit/33MHz PSB64 and the 64Bit/66MHz PSB66. Dolphin is also releasing their SISCI programming libraries under GPL (GNU Public License) for the Novell NetWare 5 and NetWare 6 platforms. "The release of these Dolphin Interconnect products is part of an ongoing program to give our users high-performance SCI interconnect and clustering solutions on a wide range of computing platforms," said J.C. (Pat) Darden, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Dolphin. "Novell NetWare joins a long line of SCI-supported drivers including Linux, NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Solaris, TRU 64, Lynx and VXWorks WindRiver." Jeff V. Merky, president of Tipanogas Inc., a Novell software consultancy company, said, "I believe that offering Novell users high-performance SCI interconnect technology for their server and PC clusters is a major breakthrough for performance in this market arena." Dolphin SCI is highly scalable clustering interconnect technology that delivers unmatched performance levels for computational and scientific clustering applications and is widely deployed throughout the world. The Dolphin PCI-SCI technology supports fully distributed clustered applications and provides a highly scalable Gigabyte parallel clustering fabric for connecting PCI-based file servers and personal computers. Dolphin SISCI API libraries are included in this release. The NetWare NLM versions of the PCI-SCI drivers are available for download now at www.dolphinics.com/download and at www.timpanogas.org, and at timpannogas.org's public open source FTP servers at ftp://vger.timpanogas.org:/sci/pcisci-1.2-3 via either FTP or HTTP HTTP in full HyperText Transfer Protocol Standard application-level protocol used for exchanging files on the World Wide Web. HTTP runs on top of the TCP/IP protocol. . About Dolphin Interconnect LLC Dolphin Interconnect LLC, headquartered in Westlake Village, California Westlake Village is a city located in Los Angeles County, California, USA. The population was 8,368 at the 2000 census. This city located in the Conejo Valley is known for its affluence and secluded character, and is considered one of the wealthier communities in the Greater Los , develops and manufactures high-speed, high-bandwidth interconnect products based on the scalable coherent interface. Dolphin Interconnect products and technologies enable customers to build cost effective, highly scalable, enterprise-class clustering solutions with standards-based hardware and software. For additional information, visit www.dolphinics.com. Note: Dolphin ICS (1) (Internet Connection Sharing) A Windows feature that enables two or more computers to share one Internet connection. First introduced in Windows 98 Second Edition, sharing is accomplished with network address translation (NAT), which is the common method. and PCI-SCI are trademarks of Dolphin Interconnect Solutions Dolphin Interconnect Solutions (OSE: DOLP) is a manufacturer of high speed data communication systems, located in Oslo, Norway (headquarters) and Natick, Massachusetts, USA (US Customer Support and Logistics. , Inc., in the United States and other countries. All other registered trademarks, trademarks and service marks are the property of their respective owners. |
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