Database System Studies in Fine Grain Optoelectronic Computing

摘要

The main objective of this program was to investigate the design and theoptoelectronic implementation of a high performance optical memory-processor interface for database applications. For very large database machines, in general, memory bandwidth is a bottleneck. Typically, the access time of a conventional secondary storage devices such as magnetic disks is at millisecond scale. The use of parallel access optical storage systems, such as parallel read-out optical disks and 2-photon 3D memories, have the potential of achieving