Myricom’s Myrinet

• Programmable Network Interface on I/O Bus

• Firmware program allows different APIs

  • Trapeze (Duke), Active Messages (UCB), FM (UIUC)

• Processor, SRAM that can be mapped into user space

• 3 DMA engines

  • to network
  • from network
  • to/from PCI

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