title: Optical interconnections for massively parallel architectures.
abstract: This paper presents a study of board-level interconnection requirements for highly parallel and massively parallel computing. Analytical models of the I/O bandwidth of popular interconnection networks have been developed and show that current electronic technologies are poor in supporting the necessary I/O density and bandwidth. Optical interconnects appear to offer greater potential in meeting these I/O requirements. Several possible optical implementations of interconnecting a network of electronic processors are compared. The use of polymer waveguides appears to offer the best solution compatible with existing multiboard system architectures.
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authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Guha
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bristow
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sullivan
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Husain