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| Network Type | Prog. Model |
Available? | Linux? | $/Node | $/Port | Port | $/Hub | Max. PEs |
Bandwidth (Mbits/s) |
Latency (µs) |
n-PE O( ) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| *HiPPI | Product | $3,500 | $1,500 | EISA, PCI |
$30,000 | 16/hub | 1,600.0 | log n | |||
| *Serial HiPPI | Product | $4,500 | $2,500 | PCI | $30,000 | 16/hub | 1,200.0 | log n | |||
| *SCI | 1,000.0 | ||||||||||
| *FC | 1,062.0 | ||||||||||
| PLIP | Socket | Copyleft | Yes | $2 | $2 | SPP | 2 | 1.2 | 1,000 | ||
| ATM | AAL5 | Product | Yes | $3,000 | $1,000 | PCI | $35,000 | 16/hub | 155.0 | 100 | log n |
| Fast Ethernet (unswitched) |
Socket | Product | Yes | $600 | $250 | PCI | $5,000 | 16/hub | 100.0 | 1,000 | > n |
| Ethernet | Socket | Product | Yes | $100 | $100 | ISA | 200 | 10.0 | 1,000 | > n | |
| Fast Ethernet (switched) |
Socket | Product | Yes | $1,500 | $250 | PCI | $20,000 | 16/hub | 100.0 | 1,000 | log n |
| ATM | Socket | Product | Yes | $3,000 | $1,000 | PCI | $35,000 | 16/hub | 155.0 | 1,000 | log n |
| Ethernet (switched) |
Socket | Product | Yes | $200 | $100 | ISA | $1,500 | 16/hub | 10.0 | 1,000 | log n |
| *ARCNET | Socket | Product | Yes | $200 | $200 | ISA | 255 | 2.5 | 1,000 | n | |
| SLIP | Socket | Copyleft | Yes | $2 | $2 | RS232 | 2 | 0.1 | 10,000 |