From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 30 09:22:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA04422 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 09:22:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from friley585.res.iastate.edu (friley585.res.iastate.edu [129.186.167.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA04385 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 09:22:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ccsanady@friley585.res.iastate.edu) Received: from friley585.res.iastate.edu (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by friley585.res.iastate.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA03539 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 11:22:27 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ccsanady@friley585.res.iastate.edu) Message-Id: <199803301722.LAA03539@friley585.res.iastate.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Virtual Interface Architecture Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 11:22:27 -0600 From: Chris Csanady Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG For those of you unfamiliar, VIA is a spec for a low level network interface. It is designed to provide efficient high bandwidth, really low latency communication. We would like to use it in a clustering environment. More info is available at: http://www.viarch.org/. I may have some time in the future to work on implementing this, so I guess I was wondering if anyone currently working on it. I have not read the spec in great detail yet, but it does seem that it requires you to have real network hardware. For this, it seems that Myrinet would work well. Perhaps hippi as well, although I can't think of any others off the top of my head. Also, is anyone else interested in this, or have any opinions about the specification? Chris Csanady To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message