An Overview of Virtual Interface Architecture (VIA)
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Cluster of standard servers are rapidly gaining popularity as an alternative for mainframe systems. Distributed and high performance applications running over these clusters require high performance communication subsystem. The proprietary network configurations developed for Systems Area Networks (SAN) so far have remedied this but have limited the scalability of the system because of high cost and lack of interoperability. Virtual Interface Architecture (VIA) is an initiative to achieve high performance communication through minimizing software overhead.
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