Synopses & Reviews
Providing an overview of the motivation, benefits, and history of the Virtual Interface Architecture as well as a guide to the syntax and semantics of the VI Provider Library API, this reference helps hardware and software engineers use the VI Architecture to develop scalable, high-performance, and fault-tolerant systems. Explained is how a new interface solves the long-standing problem of efficiently interfacing general-purpose computers to high-speed switched networks, just as Virtual Memory allowed personal computers to break through physical memory limitations. Also provided are examples demonstrating the different ways to use the API.
About the Author
Don Cameron is a senior staff architect in the Intel architecture lab and has worked on enterprise server storage architecture and the Paragon and Tflops supercomputers. Greg Regnier is currently a principal engineer in the Intel architecture lab. He has been a developer of massively parallel supercomputers and real-time media servers. Both live in Portland, California