Optical switching will innovate intra data center networks [Invited Tutorial]

K Sato - Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reflecting the recent slow-down in Moore's law and the proliferation of artificial
intelligence/machine learning workloads, the performance and energy consumption of …

Enabling quasi-static reconfigurable networks with robust topology engineering

MY Teh, S Zhao, P Cao… - IEEE/ACM Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many optical circuit switched data center networks (DCN) have been proposed in the last
decade to attain higher capacity and topology reconfigurability, though commercial adoption …

NegotiaToR: Towards A Simple Yet Effective On-demand Reconfigurable Datacenter Network

C Liang, X Song, J Cheng, M Wang, Y Liu… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Recent advances in fast optical switching technology show promise in meeting the high
goodput and low latency requirements of datacenter networks (DCN). We present …

GRAP: group-level resource allocation policy for reconfigurable Dragonfly network in HPC

G Feng, D Dong, S Zhao, Y Lu - … of the 37th International conference on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Dragonfly is a highly scalable, low-diameter, and cost-efficient network topology, which has
been adopted in new exascale High Performance Computing (HPC) systems. However …

Disaggregated optical-layer switching for optically composable disaggregated computing

K Ishii, R Matsumoto, T Inoue… - Journal of Optical …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Disaggregated computing has been widely investigated to support the continuous progress
in computing performance and overcome the slowdown of Moore's law. It involves a flexible …

A case for server-scale photonic connectivity

AV Kumar, A Devraj, D Bunandar, R Singh - Proceedings of the 23rd …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
The commoditization of machine learning is fuelling the demand for compute required to
both train large models and infer from them. At the same time, scaling the performance of …

Optical Data Center Networking: A Comprehensive Review on Traffic, Switching, Bandwidth Allocation, and Challenges

PA Baziana - IEEE Access, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The accelerated growth of data traffic in data centers (DCs) globally is driven by the
dominance of multiple emerging data-intensive applications hosted by edge/cloud DCs …

Flexible silicon photonic architecture for accelerating distributed deep learning

Z Wu, L Yuan Dai, Y Wang, S Wang… - Journal of Optical …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
The increasing size and complexity of deep learning (DL) models have led to the wide
adoption of distributed training methods in datacenters (DCs) and high-performance …

Inter-node message passing through optical reconfigurable memory channel

MG Palma, J Gonzalez, M Carrasco… - IEEE …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Efficient data movement between nodes in a data center is essential for optimal performance
of distributed workloads. With advancements in computing interconnection and memory …

Multi-Granularity Interleaved Reconfigurable Edge Data Center Network Architecture for Accelerated GAI Jobs

Y Teng, H Yang, Q Yao, W Cheng… - IEEE Internet of …, 2025 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The network has become a bottleneck for generative artificial intelligence (GAI) jobs.
Accelerating GAI jobs in edge data centers using hybrid electrical/optical switch is …