GSN
Technology Demonstration
1999

More information about GSN and ST:
CERN HSI GSN Pages,
The Standards Organisation HNF

During the HNF-Europe meeting 1 March in Reading a large majority asked to repeat a technology demonstration this year. This demonstration will be

Friday 8 October 1999 at CERN.

This period corresponds with the TELECOM 99 exhibition from 10-17 October and allows participants to visit worlds largest telecommunication exhibition. At the same time we will keep the demonstration in place during the Telecom 99 period. It is our intention to organise a shuttle bus between Telecom 99 and CERN

On Saterday 9 October there will be a guided Visite to the CERN installations ( see Agenda ).

( See also: "CERN Hostel Reservations" for HNF-Europe 1999 technology demonstration, )
( and for travelinhg:
How to come to CERN and a map of the CERN Site. )

AGENDA of the GSN WORKSHOP

Subject of the demonstration will be twofold and will follow the diagram of Figure 1

1
GSN Interconnectivity including switches, bridges and different processors with Native or PCI Interfaces
2
Storage Area Network ( SAN ) that will be mainly Fibre Channel oriented.

Figure 1

The demonstration will be organised at CERN in collaboration wih HNF and HNF-Europe.

Following Announced Participation in the''GSN DEMO:

GSN Bridge to FC,
HIPPI and Gigabit Ethernet,
GSN 8X8 Switch,
PCI-GSN Interface

Server ( ES40) with GSN Interface,
Workstation,
Raid Disk Area ( HSG 80 )

GSN Native Interfaces

Fibre Optic
Connections
for GSN

 

Server

GSN Switch

GSN Switch

 

Fiber Channel Hub & Bridge


Arie van Praag CERN 1 September 1999