Name
Title | ||
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Switching the optical divide: fundamental challenges for hybrid electrical/optical datacenter networks |
Abstract | ||
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Recent proposals to build hybrid electrical (packet-switched) and optical (circuit switched) data center interconnects promise to reduce the cost, complexity, and energy requirements of very large data center networks. Supporting realistic traffic patterns, however, exposes a number of unexpected and difficult challenges to actually deploying these systems "in the wild." In this paper, we explore several of these challenges, uncovered during a year of experience using hybrid interconnects. We discuss both the problems that must be addressed to make these interconnects truly useful, and the implications of these challenges on what solutions are likely to be ultimately feasible. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2011 | 10.1145/2038916.2038946 | SoCC |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
energy requirement,fundamental challenge,realistic traffic pattern,difficult challenge,optical datacenter network,hybrid interconnects,recent proposal,large data center network,data center interconnects,optical divide,data center | Circuit switching,Computer science,Optical circuit switching,Electronic engineering,Real-time computing,Data center | Conference |
Citations | PageRank | References |
25 | 1.18 | 18 |
Authors | ||
9 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hamid Hajabdolali Bazzaz | 1 | 276 | 15.44 |
| Malveeka Tewari | 2 | 217 | 8.64 |
| Guohui Wang | 3 | 1088 | 60.78 |
| George Porter | 4 | 1209 | 69.26 |
| T. S. Eugene Ng | 5 | 2491 | 274.31 |
| andersen david g | 6 | 4823 | 345.31 |
| Michael Kaminsky | 7 | 3390 | 229.93 |
| Michael A. Kozuch | 8 | 1782 | 82.65 |
| Amin Vahdat | 9 | 10369 | 842.39 |