Software-addressable optical accelerators for data-intensive applications in cluster-computing platforms

Payman Samadi, V. Gupta, Berk Birand, Howard Wang, R. Jensen, Gil Zussman, Keren Bergman

Abstract: We present a control plane architecture to enable software-addressable optical acceleration from the application layer. The architecture is experimentally examined on a cluster-computing test-bed by enabling physical layer optical multicasting on-demand for the application layer to achieve non-blocking performance.