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Photonic Controls to assist Corning in the Development of a Optical Supercomputer Interconnect System March 29, 2004 - Photonic Controls, LLC, an engineering services company specializing in intelligent photonic product development and high-speed embedded systems, will be assisting Corning, Inc. in the development of the next generation supercomputer. They will be working to overcome the processor-to-memory interconnect limitations found in today's supercomputer systems through the use of optical technologies. This work stems from a Department of Energy contract that was awarded to Corning in September 2003. Conventional supercomputer systems today have thousands of processors and a multiplicity of memory units that need to quickly communicate with each other in real-time. Present systems are constrained by bandwidth and distance when trying to connect. These drawbacks to today's traditional electronics approach include higher costs, slower data rates and limited scalability. Optics offers a cost-effective, high speed and scalable solution to this problem. Just as fiber optics has taken over electrical systems in the telecom industry, it is anticipated that the same benefits will accrue to supercomputing. Photonic Controls will assist Corning with the development of an optical switching interconnect solution aimed at increasing network bandwidth by 50 times. |
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