ERROR-FREE OPTICAL INTER-NODE CONNECTION FOR THE MASSIVELY-PARALLEL COMPUTER

Citation
S. Nishimura et al., ERROR-FREE OPTICAL INTER-NODE CONNECTION FOR THE MASSIVELY-PARALLEL COMPUTER, IEEE photonics technology letters, 10(1), 1998, pp. 147-149
Citations number
6
Language
INGLESE
art.tipo
Article
Categorie Soggetti
Optics,"Physics, Applied
ISSN journal
1041-1135
Volume
10
Issue
1
Year of publication
1998
Pages
147 - 149
Database
ISI
SICI code
1041-1135(1998)10:1<147:EOICFT>2.0.ZU;2-8
Abstract
An optical inter-node connection in a massively parallel computer test bed was used in order to determine whether large-throughput highly rel iable inter-node communication is attainable, Highly reliable 48-b par allel-data transmission at 100 MHz (600-MB/s throughput) was achieved. For error-free data transmission, the total skew in the inter-node da ta transmission was suppressed to less than +/-1 ns, In an 80-h pseudo random packet-data transmission test, no errors were detected, This co rresponds to a BER of less than 2.17 x 10(-15). Thus, it Is clearly sh own that the optical interconnection overcomes the communication bottl eneck in parallel-processing systems.