DocumentCode
1304093
Title
Get On The Optical Bus
Author
Schow, Clint ; Doany, Fuad ; Kash, Jeffrey
Volume
47
Issue
9
fYear
2010
fDate
9/1/2010 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
32
Lastpage
56
Abstract
At IBM, we have now developed a first-of-its-kind optical data-transfer system, or bus, built right onto the circuit board. With it, we will soon unveil computer systems 100 times as fast as anything available today. With that much muscle, scientists will at last be able to visualize wondrous things in detail: how the climate will react to man-made greenhouse gases, how neurons organize to form a brain, how to custom design a drug to treat an individual patient.
Keywords
IBM computers; optical computing; IBM; circuit board; computer systems; light-powered links; man-made greenhouse gases; optical bus; optical data-transfer system; Bandwidth; Conductors; Optical materials; Optimized production technology; Photonics; Supercomputers;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Spectrum, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9235
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/MSPEC.2010.5557513
Filename
5557513
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