iWarp: an integrated solution to high-speed parallel computing

an iWarp cell; up to 64 MBytes of memory are directly addressable. A large array of iWarp cells will deliver an iWarp is a system architecture for high speed signal, image enormous computing bandwidth never before realized in dis- and scientific computing. The heart of an iWarp system is the iWarp component: a single chip processor that requires only tributed memory parallel systems. Because of the strong the addition of memory chips to form a complete system computation and communication capabilities and because of building block, called the iWarp cell. Each iWarp component its commercial availability, iWarp is expected to be an imporcontains both a powerful computation engine (20 MFLOPS) tant building block for a diverse set of high performance and a high throughput (320 MBytes/sec), low latency parallel systems. (100-150 ns) communication engine for interfacing with other The iWarp architecture evolved from the Warp iWarp cells. Because of its strong computation and commachine [1], ...