Abbreviation for high performance parallel interface as defined by the ANSI X3T9 3 document, a standard technology for physically connecting devices at short distances and high speeds Primarily to connect supercomputers and to provide high-speed backbones for local area networks (LANs)
The High Performance Parallel Interface is a network link, often used to connect computers It is slower than shared memory transfers but faster than TCP/IP transfers
High Performance Parallel Interface, a network technology standard that specifies a transmission speed of 100 megabytes per second and allows devices to be attached directly to the network without an intervening computer
(n ) High performance parallel interface; a point to point 100 MByte/sec interface standard used for networking components of high performance multicomputers together