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LSI PCI-X Fibre Channel Host Adapters?

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Patrick Geoffray patrick at myri.com
Tue Sep 25 12:15:03 PDT 2001


Greg Lindahl wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 12:07:07AM -0400, Brian wrote:
> 
> >   Also, back on the subject of Myrinet, (.. and I know a few of you Myri
> > guys read this list!..), is there anything remotely like a product roadmap
> > available,
> 
> Well, I'm not sure what's non disclosure and what isn't, but I'll
> ask. The main benefit of PCIX is that it will allow Myricom to again
> double their bandwidth, and it will allow significantly lower
> latencies for tiny packets.

I cannot, of course, confirm that ;-)
If a such NIC would ever exist, the expected improvement would be 
close to Greg's guess. 

Patrick

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