Recent advances in optical technologies for data centers: a review

Q Cheng, M Bahadori, M Glick, S Rumley, K Bergman - Optica, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Modern data centers increasingly rely on interconnects for delivering critical
communications connectivity among numerous servers, memory, and computation …

A survey of reconfigurable optical networks

MN Hall, KT Foerster, S Schmid, R Durairajan - Optical Switching and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Reconfigurable optical networks have emerged as a promising technology to efficiently
serve the fast-growing traffic produced by the digital society. This paper provides a survey of …

Jupiter evolving: transforming google's datacenter network via optical circuit switches and software-defined networking

L Poutievski, O Mashayekhi, J Ong, A Singh… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
We present a decade of evolution and production experience with Jupiter datacenter
network fabrics. In this period Jupiter has delivered 5x higher speed and capacity, 30 …

Training deep networks with synthetic data: Bridging the reality gap by domain randomization

J Tremblay, A Prakash, D Acuna… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We present a system for training deep neural networks for object detection using synthetic
images. To handle the variability in real-world data, the system relies upon the technique of …

Sirius: A flat datacenter network with nanosecond optical switching

H Ballani, P Costa, R Behrendt, D Cletheroe… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
The increasing gap between the growth of datacenter traffic and electrical switch capacity is
expected to worsen due to the slowdown of Moore's law, motivating the need for a new …

Nanosecond optical switching and control system for data center networks

X Xue, N Calabretta - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Electrical switching based data center networks have an intrinsic bandwidth bottleneck and,
require inefficient and power-consuming multi-tier switching layers to cope with the rapid …

SiP-ML: high-bandwidth optical network interconnects for machine learning training

M Khani, M Ghobadi, M Alizadeh, Z Zhu… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
This paper proposes optical network interconnects as a key enabler for building high-
bandwidth ML training clusters with strong scaling properties. Our design, called SiP-ML …

{PowerTCP}: Pushing the performance limits of datacenter networks

V Addanki, O Michel, S Schmid - 19th USENIX symposium on networked …, 2022 - usenix.org
Increasingly stringent throughput and latency requirements in datacenter networks demand
fast and accurate congestion control. We observe that the reaction time and accuracy of …

Expanding across time to deliver bandwidth efficiency and low latency

WM Mellette, R Das, Y Guo, R McGuinness… - … USENIX Symposium on …, 2020 - usenix.org
Datacenters need networks that support both low-latency and high-bandwidth packet
delivery to meet the stringent requirements of modern applications. We present Opera, a …

Prospects and challenges of photonic switching in data centers and computing systems

SJB Yoo - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This Tutorial will discuss the motivation, benefits, and challenges of photonic switching in
data centers and cover prospects of future data centers involving emerging new …