Optical interconnections for parallel and distributed computing

Author

Yoshikawa, Takashi ; Matsuoka, Hiroshi

Author_Institution

Opt. Interconnection, NEC Res. Lab., Ibaraki, Japan

Volume

88

Issue

6

fYear

2000

fDate

6/1/2000 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

849

Lastpage

855

Abstract

This paper reports the application of optical interconnections to a parallel an distributed computing system in the form of a calibration-free 64-Gbps/board parallel optical interconnection sub-system mounted directly on the four-CPU processor board of a newly developed parallel-processing machine, "RWC-1". The sub-system is composed of eight parallel optical module/single-chip link large-scale integrated circuit pairs. The subsystem successfully transmitted parallel data for a variety of link lengths (between 1 m and 1 km), and with deskewing and synchronizing functions, phase-matching calibration for link lengths is automatic. Further, a method is described for the simplified merging of optical interconnections into electronic systems.

Keywords

optical computing; optical interconnections; parallel machines; 1 m to 1 km; 64 Gbit/s; RWC-1 parallel processing machine; array optical module; automatic phase matching calibration; deskewing function; distributed computing; electronic subsystem; optical interconnection; parallel computing; single-chip link LSI; synchronizing function; Calibration; Concurrent computing; Distributed computing; High speed optical techniques; Integrated circuit interconnections; Optical attenuators; Optical computing; Optical design; Optical interconnections; Parallel processing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Proceedings of the IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9219

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/5.867698

Filename

867698