Supercomputer Supernet (SSN): a high-speed electro-optic campus and metropolitan network

Nicholas Bambos; Joseph A. Bannister; Larry A. Bergman; Jason Cong; Eli Gafni; Mario Gerla; Leonard Kleinrock; Steve Monacos; Po-Chi Hu; B. Kannan; Bruce Kwan; Prasath Palnati; John Peck; Simon Walton

doi:10.1117/12.235857

20 March 1996 Supercomputer Supernet (SSN): a high-speed electro-optic campus and metropolitan network

Nicholas Bambos, Joseph A. Bannister, Larry A. Bergman, Jason Cong, Eli Gafni, Mario Gerla, Leonard Kleinrock, Steve Monacos, Po-Chi Hu, B. Kannan, Bruce Kwan, Prasath Palnati, John Peck, Simon Walton

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Proceedings Volume 2692, Optical Interconnects in Broadband Switching Architectures; (1996) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.235857
Event: Photonics West '96, 1996, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

The Supercomputer Supernet (SSN) is a high-performance, scalable optical interconnection network for supercomputers and workstation cluster based on asynchronous, wormhole- routing switches. The WDM optical backbone extends the geographic coverage range from interdepartmental to campus and even to metropolitan areas with dynamically reconfigurable direct or multi-hop connections. The network provides very high-speed integrated services, supporting connection oriented, guaranteed bandwidth traffic as well as datagram traffic. The first networking level of the two-level SSN architecture is electronic and consists of crossbar meshes locally interconnecting work-stations, supercomputers, peripheral devices and mass memory. At a higher networking level, an optical backbone network supporting multiple wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) channels allows communication between devices connected to distinct crossbar meshes. In this paper, we focus on the protocols of the WDM optical backbone network and address the issue of integration of the electronic wormhole- routing LAN with the optical backbone.

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Nicholas Bambos, Joseph A. Bannister, Larry A. Bergman, Jason Cong, Eli Gafni, Mario Gerla, Leonard Kleinrock, Steve Monacos, Po-Chi Hu, B. Kannan, Bruce Kwan, Prasath Palnati, John Peck, and Simon Walton "Supercomputer Supernet (SSN): a high-speed electro-optic campus and metropolitan network", Proc. SPIE 2692, Optical Interconnects in Broadband Switching Architectures, (20 March 1996); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.235857

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