The Dolphin D320 PCI-SCI Adapter Card is the high-performance, economical way to build System Area Networks for clustering of personal computers, workstations and servers. SCI is ideal for highly available, scalable database systems and other mission-critical enterprise servers.SCI's industry-leading throughput and latency result in maximal application performance and scalability. Its 800 MBytes/s link speed (bidirectional) makes SCI excellent at moving large volumes of data. The ultra-low 2.3 microsecond latency application to application reduces the overhead of internode control messages, leading to the best possible scalability for multinode applications. SCI's performance is achieved by taking maximum advantage of fast point-to-point links, and bypassing the time consuming operating system calls and protocol software overhead found in traditional networking approaches.