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Text Box: Architecture that’s truly “elegant”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


1systemTM Based on Fibre Channel
Fibre Channel internal and external to each chassis
Provides capacity to integrate multiple chassis
Roadmap in place for dramatic throughput increase

overall capacity by 2 orders of magnitude  

 

Integrates Host CPUs, Storage Drives, and Network Connectivity
Flexible configurations to best serve requirements
Enables balanced integration of storage, processing

and communications
 

CPU StepAside minimizes CPU intervention
Host CPU handles authentication, stream setup
Fibre Channel controllers handle streaming
Provides transactional offload from OS, host CPU,

RAM, and data path
 

Fault tolerant and dynamically scalable at all levels
 

Supports Windows®, Linux®, Unix and RT O/S

          case study 2002