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Optical Switching Middleware for the OptIPuter

2003; Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers; Volume: 86; Issue: 8 Linguagem: Inglês

1745-1345

Thomas A. DeFanti, Maxine Brown, Jason Leigh, Oliver Yu, Eric He, Joel Mambretti, David Lillethun, Jeremy Weinberger,

Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies

The OptIPuter is a radical distributed visualization, teleimmersion, data mining and computing architecture. Observing that the exponential growth rates in bandwidth and storage are now much higher than Moore’s Law, this major new project of several universities – currently six in the US and one in Amsterdam – exploits a new world of computing in which the central architectural element is optical networking. This transition is caused by the use of parallelism, as in supercomputing a decade ago. However, this time the parallelism is in multiple wavelengths of light, or lambdas, on single optical fibers, creating a LambdaGrid. Providing applications-centric middleware to control the LambdaGrid on a regional and global scale is a key goal of the OptIPuter and StarLight Optical Switching projects.