Performance benefits of optical circuit switches for large-scale dragonfly networks
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Minkenberg, Cyriel; Rodriguez, German; Prisacari, Bogdan; Schares, Laurent; Heidelberger, Philip; Chen, Dong; Stunkel, Craig
- Source
- 2016 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC) Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2016. :1-3 Mar, 2016
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Photonics and Electrooptics
Bandwidth
Routing
Optical switches
Traffic control
Network topology
Optical fiber networks
Fats
- Language
We propose Optical Circuit Switching for dynamically creating reconfigurable partitions in large-scale systems with Dragonfly networks. Up to 2x execution-time improvement is demonstrated for global traffic patterns in a >13,000-node system using a production-grade network simulator.