Optical interconnects in exascale supercomputers

2010 23rd Annual Meeting of the IEEE Photonics Society, PHOTINICS 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 483-484

  Kash, Jeffrey A ^a   Benner, Alan F ^b   Doany, Fuad E ^a   Kuchta, Daniel M ^a   Lee, Benjamin G ^a   Pepeljugoski, Petar K ^a   Schares, Laurent ^a   Schow, Clint L ^a   Taubenblatt, Marc ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC REQUIREMENTS; PETASCALE;

OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

INTEGRATED OPTICS;

EID: 79951898812     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PHOTONICS.2010.5698971     Document Type: Conference Paper

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