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dc.contributor.authorPitwon, Richard Charles Alexander
dc.contributor.authorReddy, Anil
dc.contributor.authorJain, Aditya
dc.contributor.authorGomez, Kevin
dc.contributor.authorSchulz, Sebastian Andreas
dc.contributor.authorO'Faolain, Liam
dc.contributor.authorWang, Kai
dc.contributor.authorMiller, Allen
dc.contributor.authorDavies, Vivienne
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-03T17:30:01Z
dc.date.available2022-02-03T17:30:01Z
dc.date.issued2022-01-31
dc.identifier277085296
dc.identifier73c824b3-db0d-4091-83a5-434de1fdaa01
dc.identifier85123787410
dc.identifier000759892300001
dc.identifier.citationPitwon , R C A , Reddy , A , Jain , A , Gomez , K , Schulz , S A , O'Faolain , L , Wang , K , Miller , A & Davies , V 2022 , ' Evolution of system embedded optical interconnect in sub-top of rack data center systems ' , Applied Sciences , vol. 12 , no. 3 , 1565 . https://doi.org/10.3390/app12031565en
dc.identifier.issn2076-3417
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0001-5169-0337/work/107718159
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/24805
dc.descriptionThis research was funded by the EU FP7 project “PhoxTrot”, for which it has received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013) under grant agreement No. 318240, the Horizon2020 Nephele project (Grant No. 645212), the Horizon2020 COSMICC project (Grant No. 688516).en
dc.description.abstractIn this paper we review key technological milestones in system embedded optical interconnects in data centers that have been achieved between 2014 and 2020 on major European Union research and development projects. This includes the development of proprietary optically enabled data storage and switch systems and optically enabled data storage and compute subsystems. We report on four optically enabled data center system demonstrators: LightningValley, ThunderValley2, Pegasus and Aurora, which include advanced optical circuits based on polymer waveguides and fibers and proprietary electro-optical connectors. We also report on optically enabled subsystems including Ethernet-connected hard disk drives and microservers. Both are designed in the same pluggable carrier form factor and with embedded optical transceiver and connector interfaces, thus allowing, for the first time, both compute and storage nodes to be optically interchangeable and directly interconnectable over long distances. Finally, we present the Nexus platform, which allows different optically enabled data center test systems and subsystems to be interconnected and comparatively characterized within a data center test environment.
dc.format.extent22
dc.format.extent2928344
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofApplied Sciencesen
dc.subjectData centresen
dc.subjectIntegrated photonicsen
dc.subjectSilicon photonicsen
dc.subjectFiber opticsen
dc.subjectPolymer waveguidesen
dc.subjectCo-packaged opticsen
dc.subjectHigh performance computersen
dc.subjectOptical interconnectsen
dc.subjectOptical communicationsen
dc.subjectQA75 Electronic computers. Computer scienceen
dc.subjectTK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineeringen
dc.subjectT-DASen
dc.subjectMCCen
dc.subject.lccQA75en
dc.subject.lccTKen
dc.titleEvolution of system embedded optical interconnect in sub-top of rack data center systemsen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.sponsorEuropean Commissionen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Physics and Astronomyen
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/app12031565
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.identifier.grantnumber688516en


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