Photonic Interconnect based Switching and Logic Synthesis for High Performance Computing Applications

Abstract

The widespread web-based applications are attracting extensive acceptance and deployment due to easy accessibility. The voluntary usage of social networking platforms by millions of users has forced various organizations to install extensively huge data centers (DCs). The large-scale industrial fields like health, engineering, commercial, defense, etc. employing High-Performance Computation (HPC) networks depend on these data centers. The big data flowing every second requires minimum possible error and faster processing to ensure high quality of service. The major issue of this multimedia transmission arises when the user-traffic is at its peak and DCs face a load-balancing problem and higher latency while switching this traffic. This questions the present DC configuration and its efficiency. HPC systems handling complex tasks along with artificial intelligence, on the other hand, demand highly scalable structures with low latency. The current hybrid electro-optic technology entails large power consumption during electro-optic (E-O) and optic-electro (O-E) conversions. In addition, if the switching and processing of big data are continued in the electronics domain then its full potential cannot be exploited due to the increasing complexity of cables and it will eventually limit the scalability of DCs. The all-optic platforms can overrun the limitations of these challenges by offering many other positive advantages like a large bit rate, massive bandwidth, low reception-error, and reliable cost. The attractive features of optical switching technology in DCs offer promising solutions to various networking problems. Although the extensive deployment of various optical switching technologies has proposed countless innovative schemes to overcome the challenges but the designing demands have always been an obstruction in DC switch performance. The high-radix interconnected structure utilizing MEMS-based technologies faces a large response time whereas liquid crystal-based configurations offer low power consumption