Design Choices and First Results of Our VIA-Capable PCI-SCI Bridge

Both the Scalable Coherent Interface (SCI) [7] and theVirtual Interface Architecture (VIA) [8] aim at providingeffective cluster communication systems. In previouspublications we showed that SCI and VIA can beefficiently combined to form a new communication architecture(e.g. [1, 2]).In this paper we show that despite of having adoptedan flexible relatively slow FPGA--based design an appropriatearchitectural solution may lead to a PCI--SCIhardware of which the final performance can...