Can optical interconnects lead to cheaper high-performance multiprocessors?

Uzi Vishkin

doi:10.1117/12.579309

25 October 2004 Can optical interconnects lead to cheaper high-performance multiprocessors?

Uzi Vishkin

Proceedings Volume 5595, Active and Passive Optical Components for WDM Communications IV; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.579309
Event: Optics East, 2004, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Abstract

A new paradigm for an all-to-all optical interconnect is presented. It could be part of an interconnection fabric between parallel processing elements and the first level of the cache in a computer system. Parallel processing has traditionally aspired to improve performance of such systems. An optical interconnect raises a new possibility: obtain both improved performance and significant cost reduction with respect to standard serial computer system models.

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Uzi Vishkin "Can optical interconnects lead to cheaper high-performance multiprocessors?", Proc. SPIE 5595, Active and Passive Optical Components for WDM Communications IV, (25 October 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.579309

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