High Performance Parallel Interface




<hardware, standard> (HIPPI, previously HPPI) A connection-oriented, point-to-point networking standard using circuit-switching technology at a speed of 800 Mbits/s or 1.6 Gbits/s (simplex or full-duplex).

HIPPI is often used for short distances (up to 10km depending on cable type) to connect a supercomputer to routers, frame buffers, mass-storage peripherals and other computers.

HIPPI was developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory and is now ANSI standard X3T9/88-127.

Standards for interconnecting with ATM, SONet, and fibre channel are in development.

HIPPI Networking Forum (http://www.esscom.com/hnf).



< Previous Terms Terms Containing High Performance Parallel Interface Next Terms >
high memory area
high moby
High Performance Computing and Communications
High Performance File System
High Performance Fortran
 HIPPI
HPPI
 High Performance Routing
High Performance Serial Bus
High Speed Circuit Switched Data
High Speed Connect
high speed serial interface