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Olaf Helsets vei 6 NO-0621 Oslo, Norway Phone: +47 23 16 70 00 Fax: +47 23 16 71 80

DOLPHIN INTERCONNECT SOLUTIONS AS Manchester University September 2000 Kåre Løchsen CEO, Managing Director kl@dolphinics.no. Olaf Helsets vei 6 NO-0621 Oslo, Norway Phone: +47 23 16 70 00 Fax: +47 23 16 71 80. Agenda. Company Overview Technology Products Applications. Company Overview.

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Olaf Helsets vei 6 NO-0621 Oslo, Norway Phone: +47 23 16 70 00 Fax: +47 23 16 71 80

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  1. DOLPHIN INTERCONNECT SOLUTIONS ASManchester University September 2000Kåre LøchsenCEO, Managing Directorkl@dolphinics.no Olaf Helsets vei 6 NO-0621 Oslo, Norway Phone: +47 23 16 70 00 Fax: +47 23 16 71 80

  2. Agenda • Company Overview • Technology • Products • Applications

  3. Company Overview • Spin-off from the Norwegian Computer company Norsk Data in 1992 • Venture Capital Funding from 1993 • Experience SCI based in high speed computer interconnect from 1988 • Employees, 21 in Oslo, 1 in Paris , 6 in USA • US Holding Company and Daughter Company Office in Westlake CA and Albuquerque NM • Sister Company, Etnus, Spun off 1999 in Framingham, MA • First Application of Dolphin Technology, Convex Exemplar, 1994 • Shipping Customers, SUN, Fujitsu Siemens , Data General, Auspex • Revenue, 1997 • 7 M$, 1998 • 9 M$, 1999 11M$ • July 2000, 19 million $ Licensing Agreement with SUN

  4. Dolphin Business • Dolphin Provides Proven Computer Systems Interconnect Solutions • Leading Provider of Product and Technology for the SCI (Scalable Coherent Interface) Standard • In high Key Applications Among at Leading Companies like SUN, Data General, Auspex and Siemens • Products and Technology • 10 years Experience in Products based on the IEEE SCI Standard • 5th Generation of Products for SCI Links • 3rd Generation or Products for PCI Control • Cards and Switches in use by OEMs and direct Customers • Wide Application Area for the Technology • Clustering, Multiprocessing, I/O Systems, Embedded Systems, Telecommunication • Leading Edge Performance and Price/Performance

  5. Agenda • Company Overview • Technology • Products • Applications

  6. Dolphin Technology • Leading Provider of Product and Technology for the SCI (Scalable Coherent Interface) Standard • SCI is an Open Bus Replacement Technology • High Bandwidth Low Latency Communication over Large System Area • Direct Access to Remote Memory • Chips from Dolphin • SCI LinkController Chip • PCI Protocol Chip • SCI Cache Coherency Controller Chip • LinkController 2 Prototype, 1996 • 500 Mbytes/s Input and Output Link • LinkController 3 Prototype s April, 2000 • 667 Mbytes/s links

  7. SCI TECHNOLOGY • WHAT IS SCI? • The SCI standard ANSI/IEEE 1596-1992 defines a point-to-point interface and a set of packet protocols. • The SCI protocols use small packet sizes with a 16-byte header and data sizes of 16, 64, (128) and {256} bytes. Each packet is protected by a 16-bit CRC code. An SCI interface has two unidirectional links that operate concurrently. • The SCI protocols support shared memory by encapsulating bus requests and responses into SCI request and response packets. Packet-based handshake protocols guarantee reliable data delivery. • SCI use 64 bits addressing and the most significant 16 bits are used for addressing up to 64K nodes. • A set of cache coherence protocols are defined to maintain cache coherence in a shared memory system. • Message passing is supported by a compatible subset of the SCI protocols. This protocol subset does not invoke SCI cache coherency protocols.

  8. SCI Technology • SCI is Designed for PERFORMANCE • SCI performance is achieved by taking advantage of fast point-to-point connections, and bypassing the time-consuming operating system calls and protocol software overhead associated with traditional networking interconnection. • SCI is Designed for RELIABILITY • Guaranteed data delivery • Error detection and recovery • SCI is Designed for MISSION-CRITICAL Applications • Hot pluggable • Dual adapter and switch fabrics • SCI is Designed for LOW COST • Dolphin’s SCI Technology has low cost and low power consumption for the performance and versatility it offers

  9. Dolphin’s Technology - Applicability • SYMMETRIC MULTI-PROCESSOR ARCHITECTURE • Cache Coherence (Data General) • BUS EXTENSION / REPLACEMENT • PCI Bus extension (Fujitsu Siemens) • PCI/PMC/CompactPCI, Embedded PCI • NETWORKED STORAGE • High-speed internal data transfers (Auspex) • HIGH-THROUGHPUT TRANSFERS • Data acquisition, Imaging, Video • Real-Time OS, Lynx, VxWorks • CLUSTERING & MIRRORING (HA) • UNIX (Sun), Windows 2000 • Databases • High-Availability solutions • HIGH PERFORMMANCE COMPUTING (HPC) • UNIX/Linux/NT: (Scali, Fujitsu Siemens)

  10. Application Areas • Server Clustering • Linux, Unix, Windows2000 • I/O Systems • Expandable I/O Systems, System Area Networks, Storage • Telecommunication • Servers, Routing, Switching • System Interconnect • High Performance Computing • Clustered and SMP Multiprocessing • Defense • Command and Control Systems, Computers, Network • Embedded Systems • Imaging, Telecommunication Equipment

  11. Agenda • Company Overview • Technology • Products • Applications

  12. Dolphin Products W2000, Solaris, Linux, Lynx, VxWorks PCI SCI Adapter Card IRM, SISCI API, VI, NDIS, DLPI Card Card Card Card SBus SCI Adapter Card Hardware Switch PMC SCI Adapter Card I/O Subsystem Modules Paroli SCI Parallel Optical Cable SCI Modular Switch

  13. Dolphin Technology, Chips • LC3 • LinkController family • SCI Link Interface Chip • 667 Mbytes/s input and output Link • PSB 66 • PCI Protocol Chip family • PCI to LC Protocol Chip • Supports Clustering, I/O Expansion • SCC SCI Cache Controller Chip

  14. FEATURES Two unidirectional links at 667 MBytes/s 30 ns bypass latency Low Voltage Differential Signaling (LVDS) link Guaranteed data delivery, error detection and recovery Hot pluggable Compliant to Standards ANSI/IEEE 1596-1992 Scalable Coherent Interface ANSI/IEEE 1212 Computer Status Register compliant ANSI/IEEE 1159.1 (JTAG) BENEFITS Very high bandwidth Lowest latency in the industry Low power, reliability and noise immunity Highly reliable Ready for 24x7 operations Security of Standards LC3 LinkController Chip LC3 is an economical, reliable and powerful link interface for high performance distributed applications

  15. LC3 Overview • The LC3 is the third generation link controller, or fifth generation link interface • 8 transmit and receive queues (doubled with respect to the LC2) • Support for 128 byte packets • Single 3.3V power supply • LVDS (IEEE 1596.3) signal levels, compatible with the LC2 both at the link and B-Link level. • JTAG (IEEE 1149.1) Test Access Port • BxBar or B-Link mode • VC mode supports packet ordering on point to point links (two node ringlets)

  16. FEATURES Direct Memory Access (DMA), chained READ and WRITE Remote Memory Access (RMA) Hostbridge capability Built-in address translation Error detection and protection mechanisms Compliant to ANSI/IEEE 1596-1992 (SCI) standard PCI 2.1 compliant 64 and 32 bits 66 and 33 MHz PCI 128 Bytes PCI Bursts and SCI Packets BENEFITS Greatly reduces CPU overhead associated with data transfer Allows applications to reliably exchange data without the use of operating system services Enables ultra-low latency messaging Enables transparent I/O transfers Based on Standards PCI Bus Bridging via B-Link or SCI PSB66 Chip PSB66 provides powerful mechanisms and highly reliable message passing for high-throughput distributed applications

  17. PCI-SCI Adapter Card - PCI-64/66 • SCI ADAPTERS (64 bit - 66 MHz) • PCI / SCI ADAPTER (D320) • Industry-best latency (1.9 microseconds) • High data throughput ( ~ 250-300 MBytes/sec) • Supports both: • Direct Memory Access (DMA) • Remote Memory Access (RMA) • Hot-pluggable adapter • Redundant SCI adapters can be used for Fault-tolerance • ANSI/IEEE 1596-1992 Scalable Coherent Interface (SCI) standard compliant Cluster Adapter PCI to PCI Bridge PCI Extension

  18. PMC-SCI Adapter Card - PMC-64/66 • SCI ADAPTERS (64 bit - 33 MHz) • PCI / SCI ADAPTER (D320) • Industry-best latency (1.9 microseconds) • High data throughput ( ~ 250-300 MBytes/sec) • Supports both: • Direct Memory Access (DMA) • Remote Memory Access (RMA) • Hot-pluggable adapter • Redundant SCI adapters can be used for Fault-tolerance • ANSI/IEEE 1596-1992 Scalable Coherent Interface (SCI) standard compliant Cluster Adapter PCI to PCI Bridge PCI Extension Compact PCI Adapter

  19. ( Port Expandable Modular X-Bar SCI Switch - D535 • SCI Modular Switch • Expandable 8-port Switch (D535) • 8 User ports • Expandable to 128 ports • Performance: • Raw/port: 667 MBytes/s • Aggregate (8 ports): 5.33 GigaBytes/s • Latency port to port: 150 ns. • Port fencing (problem isolation) • Hot pluggable connections • Rack mountable (19”) • Out of band Control

  20. WulfKit Distributed Switching: PCI-bus PSB B-Link LC3 LC3 Horizontal SCI Ring Vertical SCI Ring • WulfKit is a product marketed by Dolphin in collaboration with Scali • It consists of all HW and SW for one node in a cluster • Dolphin HW and Scali SW • Main feature is Supercomputer MPI performance • Topology is 2D Torus • Applications • HPC, ISP, ASP, Database Servers

  21. Agenda • Company Overview • Technology • Products • Applications

  22. SCI Means Competitive Edge • Sun Beats IBM and NCR by 30% on Price/Performance • Informix TPC-D Decision Support Benchmark. 1 TB Storage • 4 nodes SCI Interconnect • Dolphin Ships: Cards and Switches Ultra Enterprise Cluster • Data General Improves Price/Performance by 250% over Nearest Competitor Sequent • Oracle 8 Database. 300 GB Storage. • 32 Processors SCI Interconnect • Dolphin Ships: Chips and Switches AV20000 NUMA Server

  23. Scali Computer Leads in Performance with SCI •Scali/Siemens Installation in Paderborn •PSC2 12 x 8 Torus 192 Processors 450MHz 86.4GFlops •PSC1 8 x 4 Torus 64 Processors 300MHz 19.2GFlops •Dolphin Ships: Cards

  24. SCI REMOVES I/O BOTTLENECK • Siemens Uses Dolphin’s SCI in RM600 E UNIX Servers • SCI Allows Expansion to 150 PCI Slots and 5.8 TB of Storage. • High Performance SCI Links Enable Remote Attachment • Dolphin Ships: Chips RM600 E Server

  25. High Performance File Server • Auspex Uses Dolphin PCI SCI Cards for Main Rack to Rack Interconnect in its 4 Front NS2000 • Connect up to 4 storage system to the control system • Gives Performance, Expandability and Reliability • Dolphin Ships: Cards

  26. Mirage 2000 Upgrade • Thomson-CSF choisit le standard SCI comme réseau d’interconnexion dans les systèmes embarqués Offered with systems like Mirage 2000-9 and Rafale Dolphin’s Technology is used as the main interconnect in the on-board Multi Processor

  27. Space Mission Application Dolphin’s technology is chosen for evaluation http://sim.jpl.nasa.gov/

  28. Dolphin Technology • Proven Computer Systems Interconnect Solutions • Leading Technology for the SCI (Scalable Coherent Interface) Standard • Used In high Key Applications Among at Leading Companies like SUN, Data General, Auspex, Thomson CSF and Fujitsu Siemens • Products and Technology • SCI Link Controllers • PCI Control and Bridging • Cards, Switches Software and System Solutions • Wide Application Area for the Technology • Clustering, Multiprocessing, I/O Systems, Bus Bridging, Embedded Systems, Telecommunication • Unique applicability and an outstanding option for clustering and HPC

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