The OptIPuter, Quartzite, And Starlight Projects: A Campus To Global-Scale Testbed For Optical Technologies Enabling LambdaGrid Computing
Larry Smarr, Joe Ford, Phil Papadopoulos, Shaya Fainman, Thomas DeFanti, Maxine Brown, Jason Leigh, Optical Fiber Communication Conference & Exposition and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC) 2005, Anaheim, California, March 6-11, 2005, CD ROM.
Abstract
Dedicated optical connections have significant advantages over shared Internet connections. The OptIPuter project (www.optiputer.net) uses medical and earth sciences imaging as application drivers. Quartzite (UCSD) and Starlight (Chicago) create unique combinations of OEO routers and OOO and wavelength-selective optical switches.