IBM has joined with Maximum Strategy Corp of San Jose, California on a programme todevelop High-Performance Parallel Interface – HiPPI – attached disk arrays for use in engineering and scientific computing applications. The HiPPI standard, set by the American National Standards Institute, is to enable bulk data to be transferred between a computer’s central processors and input-output devices at rates much faster than previously possible and used with disk arrays is designed to accelerate numerically-intensive applications, although it does noting for general-purpose transaction processing applications. The research will concentrate on combining IBM’s disks, the HiPPI attachment, and the data storage controller architecture of Maximum Strategy. The HiPPI attachment already is available on IBM ES/3090 and water-cooled ES/9000s.
