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CLUSTER COMPUTING-THE JOURNAL OF NETWORKS SOFTWARE TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS
卷 16, 期 3, 页码 611-623出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10586-012-0227-6
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Optical interconnects; Data center networks; Cluster networks; Green IT networks
Cloud computing and web emerging applications have created the need for more powerful data centers. These data centers need high bandwidth interconnects that can sustain the high interaction between the web-, application- and database-servers. Data center networks based on electronic packet switches will have to consume excessive power in order to satisfy the required communication bandwidth of future data centers. Optical interconnects have gained attention recently as a promising energy efficient solution offering high throughput, low latency and reduced energy consumption compared to current networks based on commodity switches. This paper presents a comparison on the power consumption of several optical interconnection schemes based on AWGRs, Wavelength Selective Switches (WSS) or Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers (SOAs). Based on a thorough analysis of each architecture, it is shown that optical interconnects can achieve at least an order of magnitude higher energy efficiency compared to current data center networks based on electrical packet based switches and they could contribute to greener IT network infrastructures.
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