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Topics 2001 |
We exhibited the Comet i-NIC-2 as an IPv6 security accelerator at Fujitsu booth in Net.Liferium2001 IPv6 Showcase held at Pacifico Yokohama from 2001/12/15 - 12/16 (snapshots).
We exhibited the Comet DV/IPsec (Digital Video over IP security) and the
Comet cluster at
RWC2001 Final Exhibition & Symposia, Tokyo Fashion Town, October 3 - 5, 2001
(snapshots).
The Comet DV/IPsec is the first DV transmission system using IPsec in
the world. Processing to encapsulate 25 Mbps DV data using IPsec ESP
(Encapsulating Security Payload) packets is totally performed by a
Comet Network Processor (Comet NP). Comet NP includes two Stream
Processors (SPs) and each SP realizes over 250Mbps IPsec ESP
processing performance. So one sp can handle total DV/IPsec
processing.
The Comet cluster is an Internet-based SCore cluster prototype. It
consists of 16 dual 1GHz Pentium III PCs connected by dual-port
gigabit ethernet. The cluster uses a SCore 4.1 parallel and
distributed operating system developed by Parallel and Distributed
System Software Laboratory. We demonstrated a volume rendering program
and a NAS parallel benchmark program running on the cluster.
We exhibited the Comet network adapter at NETWORLD+INTEROP 2001 TOKYO IPv6 ShowCase (snapshots).
An article of our Comet networking server adapter appeard at Nikkei net/IT web site (June 2001).
We have developed new Comet Network Adapters on June 5, 2001.
These new boards mount a Comet Network Processor (NP/ASIC)
with 64bit/66MHz PCI interfaces.
Currently we are testing some basic hardware functions.
We will evaluate performance of the boards on various unix operating systems,
such as Linux Redhat, Solaris and BSD/OS.
We developed Comet Network Processors (NP/ASIC) on January 18, 2001. The processors have unique processing engines named Stream Processor (SP) and two 64bit/66MHz PCI interfaces. Each SP has a programmable finite state machine and it treats packet data as instructions. The SP also has some functional blocks like a table lookup engine and a DES/3DES engine. Using 0.35um low-cost CMOS technology, each SP works at 55MHz and achieves 440MB/sec IP processing speed. Moreover, using the 3DES engine, it will achieve 22MB/sec throughput for IPsec communication.
