OPTICAL BUSES WILL SOUP UP SUPERCOMPUTERS

Post date: 11-Sep-2010 09:49:42

IBM researchers recently announced the creation of an optical bus that they say will narrow the so-called bandwidth gap, or the difference between intrachip and chip-to-external-component data transfer rates. The result, they say, will be computers 100 times as fast as anything now possible. The mind-boggling number-crunching capabilities of today's supercomputers will seem like a slow drip in comparison.

http://www.mmsend10.com/link.cfm?tid=6488751505&trk=yes&r=127957515&sid=10637981&m=1103814&u=IEEENY&s=http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/optoelectronics/get-on-the-optical-bus