HyprFabrc-00

HyperFabric is a High-Speed Cluster Interconnect that supports both the industry standard TCP/UDP over IP and HP's proprietary Hyper Messaging Protocol (HMP). HyperFabric extends the scalability and reliability of TCP/UDP by providing transparent load balancing of connection traffic across multiple network interface cards (NICs) and transparent failover of traffic from one card to another without invocation of HP Serviceguard. The HyperFabric NIC implements HP's Hyper Messaging Protocol and provides lower latency and lower host CPU utilization for standard TCP/UDP benchmarks when compared to gigabit Ethernet. HyperFabric products support clusters up to 64-nodes.

Summary of Change

What’s New for Customers Migrating from HP-UX 11i v1 September 2005?

HyperFabric 11.31 supports only Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) HF2 (HyperFabric2) cards. HF1 (HyperFabric1) Cards will not be supported.

What’s New for Customers Migrating from HP-UX 11i v2 June 2006?

See “What’s New for Customers Migrating from HP-UX 11i v1 September 2005?”

Impact

There are no impacts other than those previously described.

Compatibility

There are no known compatibility issues.

Performance

• Provides up to 2.5 Gb/s Full Duplex Bandwidth per card

• Latency of < 22 s for HF2 Card

Documentation

HyperFabric documentation is available at

http://docs.hp.com/en/netcom.html#HyperFabric.

Obsolescence

No support for Message Passing Interface (MPI) on HF2.