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- IEEE SCI has a ring-topology-based networking system unlike the star topology of Ethernet.
- It is faster to large-scale communication.
- It can be used with a torus-2D or a torus-3D topology.
- It is the best choose for high number of nodes, because it can support
hundreds or thousands of nodes.
- It has low latencies (under 2.5 microseconds), and it can run at 400 MB per
second (3.2 Gbps) in each direction.
David Santo Orcero
2000-11-24