[geeks] Re: Re: Super Sun3

[Michael Thompson]

>How does BusNet work? I've got a bunch of Force 2 and  Force 5 Sparc boards
>and a suitable 6U card enclosure, and I'd love to make a "mini-cluster" out
>of them, or at least do more than stare at them in the pile.  .  .
>
>Steve

Take a look at http://www.vita.com/vso/draftstd/busnet-overview.pdf

You have a driver that allocates a block of VMEbus memory for mailboxes for
each CPU. A CPU writes a packet into another CPU's mailbox and then
interrupts the the other CPU. The driver makes all of this look like a
network device.

Force had this running under Solaris...



Michael Thompson
E-Mail: M_Thompson at IDS.net