Utilisation of optical interconnects for parallel architectures
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Fine-grain and coarse-grain computing architectures are evaluated with regard to a hardware implementation with optoelectronic interconnects. Three examples for fine-grain optoelectronic VLSI architectures are presented and their hardware requirements are specified. Furthermore technological aspects of a realisation of an optical interface with high density for fine-grain optoelectronic VLSI architectures are generally evaluated. Finally the utilisation of WDM networks in coarse-grain architectures like cluster computing systems is discussed.
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