EXPERIMENTAL FREE-SPACE OPTICAL NETWORK FOR MASSIVELY-PARALLEL COMPUTERS

Authors
ARAKI S KAJITA M KASAHARA K KUBOTA K KURIHARA K REDMOND I SCHENFELD E SUZAKI T
Citation
S. Araki et al., EXPERIMENTAL FREE-SPACE OPTICAL NETWORK FOR MASSIVELY-PARALLEL COMPUTERS, Applied optics, 35(8), 1996, pp. 1269-1281
Citations number
26
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Applied optics → ACNP
ISSN journal
00036935
Volume
35
Issue
8
Year of publication
1996
Pages
1269 - 1281
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-6935(1996)35:8<1269:EFONFM>2.0.ZU;2-R
Abstract
A free-space optical interconnection scheme is described for massively parallel processors based on the interconnection-cached network archi tecture. The optical network operates in a circuit-switching mode. Com bined with a packet-switching operation among the circuit-switched opt ical channels, a high-bandwidth, low-latency network for massively par allel processing results. The design and assembly of a 64-channel expe rimental prototype is discussed, and operational results are presented . (C) 1996 Optical Society of America