Title :
Design of Giga-Bit/s optical interconnection network for computer cluster
Author :
Zhou, Ge ; Jing, Wen-Cai ; Zhang, Yi-Mo ; Hua, Feng ; Tian, Jin-Dong ; Chen, Xian-Ling ; Liu, Wei
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Precision Instrum. & Opto-electron. Eng., Tianjin Univ., China
Abstract :
An optical interconnection network with parallel data transmitted through TDM optical link has been developed. The network has been applied to connect PCI bus to make up a computer cluster. A link having 20 Bits/40 Bits input and 20Bits/40Bits output in parallel and adopting a pair of fibers to transmit bi-directional data has also been implemented. An all optical network combining the TDM link and route switching by different wavelength is proposed, in which data sent to different destination computer is transmitted by optical signal at different wavelength determined by source computers. The network switch hub distinguishes wavelength and transports the lightwave to designated terminals. It is transparent to all data stream and no additional latency is inserted. This technique can be applied to establish interconnection network for the massively parallel computer and high performance computer cluster
Keywords :
computer networks; optical interconnections; time division multiplexing; PCI bus; TDM; all optical network; computer cluster; massively parallel computer; optical interconnection network; parallel data; performance computer cluster; All-optical networks; Bidirectional control; Computer networks; Concurrent computing; High performance computing; Optical computing; Optical design; Optical fiber communication; Optical interconnections; Time division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Massively Parallel Processing, 1998. Proceedings. Fifth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Las Vegas, NV
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8572-7
DOI :
10.1109/MPPOI.1998.682143
