Title :
Towards exaflop servers and supercomputers: The roadmap for lower power and higher density optical interconnects
Author :
Pepeljugoski, Petar ; Kash, Jeffrey ; Doany, Fuad ; Kuchta, Daniel ; Schares, Laurent ; Schow, Clint ; Taubenblatt, Marc ; Offrein, Bert Jan ; Benner, Alan
Author_Institution :
IBM T.J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
Abstract :
In the last 10 years interconnects in many high performance servers and supercomputers transitioned from copper interconnects to optical interconnects. In this presentation a technological roadmap towards will be reviewed, focusing on the evolution of interconnect power and density efficiencies.
Keywords :
file servers; mainframes; optical interconnections; copper interconnects; exaflop servers; optical interconnects; supercomputers; Copper; Optical fibers; Optical interconnections; Supercomputers;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2010 36th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
Torino
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8536-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8534-5
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621097
