Myrinet is a high-speed 
local area network protocol designed by 
Myricom[?]. The first generation provided 512 Mbps data rates and later versions supported 1.28 Gbps and 2 Gbps. Myrinet network interface cards include dedicated 
RISC CPUs to offload network-related processing from the host CPUs.
 
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