Fast optical cross-connect for parallel processing computers
CA 1301946 C · Owner: Kobrinski, Haim · Inventors: Vecchi, Mario Pietro; Arthurs, Edward; Goodman, Matthew Samuel
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A multiwavelength optical cross-connect network for a parallel processing computer system is disclosed. Illustratively in a parallel processing computer system with N processors and M memories, two passive star couplers and a total of 2N + 2M optical fiber links produce a fully connected, internally non-blocking large, throughput, cross-connect network. Illustratively the, cross-connect network utilizes tunable optical sources and heterodyne receivers to deliver information requests from particular processors to particular memories and responses from particular memories to particular processors.
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- Granted May 26, 1992. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended May 26, 2009.
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