Commodity, High Performance Interconnects

As communication limitations become the dominant factor in designing products, devices connected by networks will become common. Most companies will not want to design their own interconnection fabric but will, instead, opt to buy an off the shelf interconnect system. Thus, vendors will offer “commodity” interconnects that are easy to integrate into other products and have good performance over a wide range of applications. The challenge for these commodity interconnects will be to deliver high performance at a reasonable cost. This paper will examine the issues in designing a commodity, high performance interconnect.