Control path implementation for a low-latency optical HPC switch

Author

Minkenberg, Cyriel ; Abel, Francois ; Müller, Peter ; Krishnamurthy, Raj ; Gusat, Mitchell ; Hemenway, B.R.

Author_Institution

IBM Res., Ruschlikon, Switzerland

fYear

2005

fDate

17-19 Aug. 2005

Firstpage

29

Lastpage

35

Abstract

A crucial part of any high-performance computing system is its interconnection network. In the OSMOSIS project, Corning and IBM are jointly developing a demonstrator interconnect based on optical cell switching with electronic control. Starting from the core set of requirements, we present the system design rationale and show how it impacts the practical implementation. Our focus is on solving the technical issues related to the electronic control path, and we show that it is feasible at the targeted design point.

Keywords

optical computing; optical interconnections; optical storage; optical switches; shared memory systems; telecommunication computing; HPC; IBM; OSMOSIS project; electronic control; high-performance computing system; optical cell switching; optical shared memory supercomputer interconnect system; Computer networks; Consumer electronics; Costs; Multiprocessor interconnection networks; Optical control; Optical devices; Optical interconnections; Optical sensors; Optical switches; Osmosis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High Performance Interconnects, 2005. Proceedings. 13th Symposium on

ISSN

1550-4794

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2449-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CONECT.2005.15

Filename

1544574