Switcherland is a modular computer architecture that easily scales
from low-end to high-end systems. Switcherland's main feature is a quality
of service (QoS) architecture that covers all levels of a distributed
system, hardware as well as software. Switcherland uses a novel communication
infrastructure based on switches that can be used as an I/O interconnection
structure as well as a cluster interconnection structure. The ''natural''
programming model offered by a global memory architecture and the
real-time support provided in the form of QoS guarantees make Switcherland
an ideal platform for distributed applications that process continuous
data such as video and audio data in addition to traditional non-continuous
data.
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H. Eberle, Switcherland: Ein skalierbares Rechnersystem für
verteilte Multimediaanwendungen. Informatik/Informatique, Schweiz.
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Architecture. Barcelona, June 29 - July 1, 1998.
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