Optics for high-performance servers and supercomputers

Author

Benner, Alan F. ; Kuchta, Daniel M. ; Pepeljugoski, Petar K. ; Budd, Russell A. ; Hougham, Gareth ; Fasano, Benjamin V. ; Marston, Kenneth ; Bagheri, Harry ; Seminaro, Edward J. ; Xu, Hui ; Meadowcroft, David ; Fields, Mitchell H. ; McColloch, Larry ; Rob

Author_Institution

Syst.&Technol. Group, IBM, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

21-25 March 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We report the optical interconnect for POWER7-IH systems, which provides high-BW, low-latency connectivity for 100,000s of high-performance CPU cores by leveraging dense transceiver and connector technologies to construct chip module optical IOs.

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; mainframes; optical computing; optical design techniques; optical interconnections; POWER7-IH systems; chip module; connector technologies; dense transceiver; high-performance CPU cores; high-performance servers; low-latency connectivity; optical interconnect design; supercomputers; Bandwidth; Cooling; Optical computing; Optical interconnections; Optical network units; Optical receivers; Optical switches; Optical transmitters; Power system reliability; Supercomputers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication (OFC), collocated National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2010 Conference on (OFC/NFOEC)

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-884-1

Type

conf

Filename

5465393