SCinet
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SCinet is a high-performance network that is built, once a year, in support of the annual International Conference for High Performance Computing and Communications also known as the SC Conference [1]. It is the primary network for the conference and is used by attendees to demonstrate and test high-performance distributed applications.
Originated in 1991 as an initiative within the SC conference to provide networking to attendees, SCinet has grown to become the "World's Fastest Network" during the duration of the conference. Over the years, SCinet has been used as a platform to test networking technology and applications which have found their way into common use.
At SC|05[2], SCinet initiated a conference wide InfiniBand infrastructure, combining various IB hardware vendors utilizing OpenIB software.
In previous years, SCinet deployed conference wide networking technologies such as ATM, FDDI, HiPPi before they were deployed commercially.
