Title :
Optical Interconnects in the Data Center
Author :
Ho, Ron ; Cunningham, John E. ; Schwetman, Herb ; Xuezhe Zheng ; Krishnamoorthy, Ashok V.
Author_Institution :
Sun Labs. Oracle, Menlo Park, CA, USA
Abstract :
Optical interconnects in large-scale systems offer the possibility of new system topologies, with many multi-core processors and memories integrated together and densely co packaged. This opens up new possibilities in large-scale installations like data centers, supporting both commercial and scientific applications. A first step is to explore the optical and electrical circuits and devices required to create optical links, but many interesting research questions remain about how to construct large-scale systems that employ those links.
Keywords :
computer centres; optical computing; optical interconnections; optical links; data center; electrical circuits; large-scale systems; multicore processors; optical interconnects; optical links; system topology; Bandwidth; Integrated circuit interconnections; Optical interconnections; Optics; Photonics; Silicon; data centers; interconnect; photonics; system-in-package;
Conference_Titel :
High Performance Interconnects (HOTI), 2010 IEEE 18th Annual Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Mountain View, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8547-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-4208-9
DOI :
10.1109/HOTI.2010.19
