Optics for High-Performance Servers and Supercomputers

• DOI: 10.1364/ofc.2010.otuh1
• Publication Date: 2013-04-12T21:20:11Z
• Authors: Alan F. Benner; Daniel M. Kuchta; Petar K. Pepeljug...; Russell A. Budd; Gareth Hougham; Benjamin V Fasano; Kenneth Marston; Harry Bagheri; Edward J Seminaro; Hui Xu; David Meadowcroft; Mitchell H. Fields; Larry McColloch; Michael Robinson; Frederick W Miller; Ron Kaneshiro; Russell Granger; Darrell Childers; Eric Childers
• Keywords: Transceiver; Optical interconnect; Optical cross-connect

We report the optical interconnect for POWER7-IH systems, which provides high-BW, low-latency connectivity 100,000s of high-performance CPU cores by leveraging dense transceiver and connector technologies to construct chip module IOs. ©2010 Optical Society America