High-speed free-space scalable switching network for parallel computing

摘要

The system architecture and the first prototpye demonstrator system for the VCSEL-based Interconnects in VLSI Architectures for Computational nhacement (VIVACE) program is described~1. The main gloal of the VIVACE program is to build a high bi-section bandwidth free-space optically interconnected switch and to demonstrate it in a system of multiple compute nodes running a distributed algorithm. The prototype demonstratory system developed is a stand alone first-generation VIVACE Optical Network INterface Card (VONIC) communicating to another VONIC through a parallel-data fiber link. This sytem was developed to test the signal integrity and Bit Error Rate (BER) between two VONICs.