Overview
HyperFabric Products
To determine the version of HyperFabric you have, issue this command:
swlist grep
Other Product Elements
The other elements of the HyperFabric product family are the following:
•A4892A HF1 copper cable (in
•HF2 fibre cables:
—C7524A (2m length)
—C7525A (16m length)
—C7526A (50m length)
—C7527A (200m length)
•The HyperFabric software: The software resides in ASICs and firmware on the adapter cards and includes user space components and
HyperFabric supports the IP network protocol stack, specifically TCP/IP, UDP/IP, and NFS.
HyperFabric software includes HyperMessaging Protocol (HMP). HMP provides higher bandwidth, lower CPU overhead, and lower latency (the time it takes a message to get from one point to another). However, these HMP benefits are only available when applications that were developed on top of HMP are running. Note that HMP can only be used on HP 9000 systems running
In addition, running an HMP application disables a node’s ability to interoperate with nodes that are using any
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