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SCI originated as a bus replacement technology, where the nodes were envisioned to be board level components like processors, memory, and input and output units. The number of nodes on a ringlet was assumed to be small, hence the adaptation of the terminology ringlet as opposed to a presumably larger ring. However, SCI has since long made its way into the user area as a System Area Network, used for workstation clustering, high performance I/O networks, and high bandwidth data acquisition systems. The scalability in performance for these applications is often a question of the number of nodes that can be put on the ringlet.
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Horn, G. (1999). Scalability of SCI Ringlets. In: Hellwagner, H., Reinefeld, A. (eds) SCI: Scalable Coherent Interface. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1734. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10704208_10
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