Title :
Optical interconnects in exascale supercomputers
Author :
Kash, Jeffrey A. ; Benner, Alan F. ; Doany, Fuad E. ; Kuchta, Daniel M. ; Lee, Benjamin G. ; Pepeljugoski, Petar K. ; Schares, Laurent ; Schow, Clint L. ; Taubenblatt, Marc
Author_Institution :
Res. Div., T.J. Watson Res. Lab., IBM, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
Abstract :
Today´s petascale supercomputers make substantial use of optical interconnects. For the exascale, optics will become pervasive, but must meet challenging technological and economic requirements. The optics technologies that can meet these requirements are reviewed.
Keywords :
mainframes; optical interconnections; parallel machines; exascale supercomputers; optical interconnects;
Conference_Titel :
IEEE Photonics Society, 2010 23rd Annual Meeting of the
Conference_Location :
Denver, CO
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5368-9
DOI :
10.1109/PHOTONICS.2010.5698971
