Performance of ATM/OC-12 on the Intel Paragon

This report summarizes communication performance of GigaNet`s OC12 ATM interface for the Intel Paragon. One-way latency of 41 {micro}s and bandwidth of 68 MB/s (full OC12) are measured using GigaNet`s AAL5 API between two Paragons. Performance is compared with Ethernet, HiPPI, and the Paragon`s native message-passing facility.