Potential applications and industries that will benefit from GSN include:
| Application Areas |
GSN Advantages |
High-Performance Computing
- Clustering
- High-performance file serving
- System area network backbone
- Big-data client-server applications (e.g., imaging)
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- Lowest latency through ST implementation
- Efficient bandwidth aggregation
- Bandwidth throughput
- High availability
- Excellent manageability
|
Entertainment
- HDTV production and archiving
- Scanning
- High-performance file serving
- Other post-production
|
- Real-time uncompressed HDTV streaming
- Bandwidth throughput
|
Commercial/Other
- Backup/restore
- Storage area network
- Data warehousing/high-performance file serving
- Enterprise backbone
- Medical imaging
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- Gateway to SAN fabric
- Bandwidth to support multiterabyte per hour data movements
- Price/performance
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