• DocumentCode
    2501062
  • Title

    Optics inside future computers

  • Author

    Lund, Craig

  • Author_Institution
    Mercury Comput. Syst. Inc., Chelmsford, MA, USA
  • fYear
    1997
  • fDate
    22-24 June 1997
  • Firstpage
    156
  • Lastpage
    159
  • Abstract
    This paper discusses the potential role of optics in future COTS processors manufactured by Mercury Computer Systems. We conclude that high-end applications, particularly space time adaptive processing (STAP), benefit from a computing platform with an optical backplane.
  • Keywords
    optical computing; optical information processing; system buses; COTS processors; optical backplane; space time adaptive processing; Application software; Bandwidth; Computer aided manufacturing; Computer networks; Concurrent computing; Internet; Optical computing; Random access memory; Standards development; Storage area networks;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Massively Parallel Processing Using Optical Interconnections, 1997., Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-8186-7975-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/MPPOI.1997.609174
  • Filename
    609174