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InfiniBand technology is being accepted as the future system interconnect to serve as the high-end enterprise fabric for cluster computing. This paper presents the design and implementation of an InfiniBand host channel adapter (HCA) based on dual ARM9 processor cores. The HCA is an SoC called KinCA which connects a host node onto the InfiniBand network both in hardware and in software. Since the ARM9 processor core does not provide necessary features for multiprocessor configuration, novel inter-processor communication and interrupt mechanisms between the two processors were designed and embedded within the KinCA chip. KinCA was fabricated as a 564-pin enhanced BGA (Ball Grid Array) device using 0.18μm CMOS technology. Mounted on host nodes, it provides 10 Gbps outbound and inbound channels for transmit and receive, respectively, enabling a high-performance cluster system.
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Moh, S., Park, K., Kim, S. (2003). KinCA: An InfiniBand Host Channel Adapter Based on Dual Processor Cores. In: Yazıcı, A., Şener, C. (eds) Computer and Information Sciences - ISCIS 2003. ISCIS 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2869. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39737-3_11
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