STRUCTURED REARRANGED NETWORK FOR DATA CENTER AND HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING APPLICATIONS

摘要

A data center network utilizing a single layer architecture includes a plurality of switches each with a plurality of ports including a first set of ports of the plurality of ports including network facing ports and a second set of ports of the plurality of ports including server facing ports; and a plurality of optical reshufflers configured to randomly interconnect the plurality of switches via the network facing ports of each in a single layer, unstructured network based on a plurality of structural constraints. The value of a number of the network facing ports is equal or greater than a number of the server facing ports and wherein each of the plurality of switches is a switch with attached servers. The plurality of optical reshufflers can be spatially partitioned across a layer with each optical reshuffler restricted to internal connectivity.