Title :
The Starfire SMP Interconnect
Author :
Charlesworth, Alan ; Aneshansley, Nicholas ; Haakmeester, Mark ; Drogichen, Dan ; Gilbert, Gary ; Williams, Ricki ; Phelps, Andrew
Author_Institution :
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Abstract :
The Starfire Ultra Enterprise 10000 extends the envelope of UNIX SMP systems in several dimensions. Interconnect: It uses four address routers and a 16x16 data crossbar to provide 64 UltraSPARC processors with uniform-memory access at a bandwidth of 10,667 MBps. Flexibility: Starfire can be dynamically reconfigured into multiple hardware-protected operating system domains. Robustness: specially-connected workstation orchestrates service activities. Failing boards can be hot-swapped without interrupting system operation. ECC is carried on both address and data paths. Performance: Starfire has set several TPC-D decision- support benchmark records. It delivers a respectable 21 Gflops on Linpack-parallel.
Keywords :
Bandwidth; Clocks; Costing; Delay; Equations; Microprocessors; Operating systems; Robustness; Springs; Sun;
Conference_Titel :
Supercomputing, ACM/IEEE 1997 Conference
Print_ISBN :
0-89791-985-8
DOI :
10.1109/SC.1997.10060
