The Virtual Interface Architecture:
by Don Cameron, Greg Regnier

This book explains how VI provides a new interface between applications and switched interconnect hardware. Just as Virtual Memory allowed personal computers to break through physical memory limitations, VI solves the long-standing problem of efficiently interfacing general-purpose computers to high-speed switched networks. This book shows how implementing VI can lower overhead by two orders of magnitude and reduce latency for I/O and communications traffic.

The Virtual Interface Architecture provides guidance for both developers and users of large clustered systems:

Software designers can discover ways to exploit the VI Architecture's capabilities and gain a competitive advantage offered by InfiniBand, which includes VI Architecture concepts.

Software designers can learn to develop the necessary drivers, middleware, and applications for VI Architecture-based systems.

Chief Technical Officers and system architects of corporate enterprises and Internet Service Providers can gain the background information to plan for deployment of VI Architecture in corporate systems.

VI Architecture is related to InfiniBand Architecture, a specification for I/O fabric that includes electrical and mechanical configurations of the physical media, supported operations and semantics, and management interface. InfiniBand does not include an API but does include many concepts of the VI Architecture.

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Publisher: Intel Press
Page Count (est.): 203
ISBN10: 0971288704
ISBN13: 9780971288706
Cover: Paperback
Pub Date: 3/23/2002