D35x Series SCI-PCI Adapter Cards
Dolphin introduced the first SCI product line in 1992. SCI products are still available and supported under a valid maintenance and support contract. Please contact Dolphin for more information. New projects are recommended to migrate to the new Dolphin Express IX product family.
- Industry lowest latency
- Supports both DMA and RMA
- LC3 and PSB-66 with 128-byte packet support
- 700 MBytes/s communication data rate on two channels RMA
- SCI network cables
- High-availability operation with hot-swappable connections and redundant PCIe-SCI cards
- ANSI/IEEE 1596-1992 scalable
- 500 MBytes/s communication data rate on twochannels DMA
Product Data
Dolphin introduced the first SCI product line in 1992. SCI products are still available and supported under a valid maintenance and support contract. Please contact Dolphin for more information. New projects are recommended to migrate to the new Dolphin Express IX product family.
The Dolphin Express SCI Series products, D350, D351 and D352 are low cost components for building high performance multiprocessing configurations for clustering PCs, Workstations and Servers for a variety of enterprise applications.
The SCI Cards provide extremely low latency combined with high bandwidth offering users major improvements in application performance and scalability. The D351 offers 10 Gbits/s link speed (bi-directional) that makes it an ideal platform for moving large volumes of data from system to system. For even higher bandwidth the D350 and D352 use two bi-directional links effectively doubling the throughput to an amazing 20 Gbits/s. The ultra-low 1.4 microseconds application-to-application latency reduces overhead of inter-node control messages, leading to the best possible scalability for multi-node applications. The low latency, low overhead and functional flexibility makes the D350 series an ideal choice for Real-Time embedded applications.
The superior performance of the SCI technology is achieved by taking maximum advantage of the SCI ANSI/IEEE standard with its fast point-to-point links that bypass time consuming operating system calls and protocol software overhead, required by traditional approaches.
The SCI links are hot-swappable connections. With the use of 2D/3D torus configurations or switches the SCI technology can be used to enhance fail-over performance and increase fault tolerance, ultimately reducing down-time and cost.
Dolphin offers comprehensive software support including its well proven SISCI API for a variety of operating systems and Dolphin SuperSockets™ for Linux and Windows.
KEY PRODUCT FEATURES| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Link Speeds | Dual Channel - 2 x 10 Gbits/s duplex Single channel - 10 Gbits/s duplex 2D model - 2 x 10 Gbits/s duplex 3D model - 3 x 10 Gbits/s duplex |
| Performance | 700 MBytes/s communication data rate on two channels RMA 500 MBytes/s communication data rate on two channels DMA 1.4 microsecond latency (application-to-application) 0.2 microsecond pipelined remote store in a saturated pipeline |
| SCI Link Standard | ANSI/IEEE 1596-1992 Scalable Coherent Interface (SCI) |
| PCI Express™ | Base Specification 1.0a |
| Topologies | Ring, 2D/3D and Switches |
| Cable Connection | Parallel STP Copper Cable (0.2 - 7.5m) |
| Power Consumption | D350 15W, D351 10W, D352 12W |
| Mechanical Dimensions | PCI Express™ Card Electromechanical Specification 1.0a |
| Operating Environment | Operating Temperature: 0°C-55°C Relative Humidity: 5%–95% non-condensing |
| Availability | The D35x series cards have limited availabiltiy, please contact Dolphin for more informaiton. |
D350
D351
D352