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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications

Optical Switching Middleware for the OptIPuter

Thomas DEFANTI, Maxine BROWN, Jason LEIGH, Oliver YU, Eric HE, Joel MAMBRETTI, David LILLETHUN, Jeremy WEINBERGER

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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.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E86-B No.8 pp.2263-2272
Publication Date
2003/08/01
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Special Section INVITED PAPER (Special Issue on Photonic IP Network Technologies for Next Generation Broadband Access)
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