[san-tech][03457] "Luxtera and STMicroelectronics to Enable High-Volume Silicon Photonics Solutions", March 1, 2012

Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 12:12:20 +0900
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Luxtera関係でまたプレスリリースです：

"Luxtera and STMicroelectronics to Enable High-Volume Silicon Photonics Solutions"
 Collaboration between two leading companies will bring silicon photonics into mainstream markets
 March 1, 2012
  http://www.luxtera.com/20120301254/luxtera-and-stmicroelectronics-to-enable-high-volume-silicon-photonics-solutions.html
  http://www.st.com/internet/com/press_release/t3279.jsp

[san-tech][03456] "将来のネットワークの省電力化へ前進", 2012年3月1日, NEDO等

Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 17:50:48 +0900
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NEDO等によるプレスリリースです：

"将来のネットワークの省電力化へ前進"
 ―「次世代高効率ネットワークデバイス技術プロジェクト」で省電力技術を実現―
 2012年3月1日
 独立行政法人新エネルギー・産業技術総合開発機構 (NEDO) 等
  http://www.nedo.go.jp/news/press/AA5_100096.html

"　NEDOが、2007年度から実施してきた「次世代高効率ネットワークデバイス
 技術開発プロジェクト」が今年度で終了、以下の成果を達成しました。

 1) 空冷動作する超小型100Gbps光トランシーバーを世界で初めて開発し、
    回路基板間の100Gbps接続を実現。
 2) 高速低電力の160Gbps光LAN-SANシステムを構築することにより、
    2チャンネルの非圧縮スーパーハイビジョン信号の配信実験に世界で
    初めて成功。"

[san-tech][03449] Luxteraに東京エレクトロンが出資、February 27, 2012

Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 21:08:05 +0900
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マニアックなネタですが、Luxteraに東京エレクトロンが出資しました：

"Luxtera Closes $21.7 Million of Financing and Adds Former Broadcom
 Executive Martin Colombatto to Board of Directors"
 Luxtera raises capital to support expansion and brings high growth
 semiconductor industry veteran to its board
 February 27, 2012
  http://www.luxtera.com/20120227253/luxtera-closes-$21.7-million-of-financing-and-adds-former-broadcom-executive-martin-colombatto-to-board-of-directors.html

[san-tech][03369] 小型のシリコンフォトニクス光源を開発、2011/09/16、富士通

Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:44:00 +0900
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日本のメーカーも頑張っています：


"CPU間の大容量光インターコネクトに向けて小型のシリコンフォトニクス光源を開発"
 光送受信器の送信部小型化と温度調整機構の不要化により、
 大容量光インターコネクトの実現に一歩前進
 2011年9月16日
  http://pr.fujitsu.com/jp/news/2011/09/16.html

  "株式会社富士通研究所は、CPU間での大容量・高速通信を可能とする光による
   インターコネクト（データ伝送）を実現するために必要となる、光送受信器用
   の小型シリコンフォトニクス光源を開発しました。

   従来は、光送受信器に搭載される、光を放つシリコンフォトニクス光源と、
   光源から発せられた光に情報を乗せる光変調器に温度変化が起こった場合、
   光源の発振波長と光変調器の動作波長にずれが生じることにより、光に情報が
   乗らなくなる懸念がありました。そのため常におたがいの動作波長を一致
   させるための温度制御が不可欠でした。今回、光源の波長と光変調器の
   動作波長を自動的に一致させる機構を新しく取り入れることで、従来技術では
   必要であった温度調整機構を不要とすることに成功しました。この技術により、
   光送受信器の送信部において小型化および従来比2分の1の低消費電力化が
   可能となります。

   今回開発した技術により、小型で低消費電力な光送受信器を CPUパッケージに
   搭載可能になります。将来のエクサフロップス級スパコンやハイエンドサーバ
   などにおけるCPU間の光インターコネクトへの適用により、超高速コンピュータ
   の実現が期待されます。"

  "本技術の詳細は、9月14日（水曜日）から16日（金曜日）までイギリス・ロンドン
   で開催された国際会議「8th Group IV Photonics (GFP 2011)」にて発表いた
   しました。"

※英語版 (USA、UK) プレスリリースは未だのようです。

[san-tech][03273] Active Optical Cable (AOC) 市場予想レポート

Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 00:13:03 +0900
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Active Optical Cable (AOC) に関する市場予想レポート (有償) です：

プレスリリース：

"New CIR Report Projects that Active Optical Cable (AOC) Market Will

 Reach $1.9 billion by 2016"

 June 13, 2011

  http://www.cir-inc.com/news/pr_detail.cfm?PRID=197

"Active Optical Cabling Markets: 2011 and Beyond"

 June 9, 2011, Pages: 90, CIR, Inc.

  http://www.cir-inc.com/products/prod_detail.cfm?prod=1&id=237

  "Active Optical Cables (AOCs) are still a niche market. CIR believes

   that they will generate less than $60 million in 2011 and these

   revenues will largely come from sales into the data center (and

   especially the InfiniBand) market. Nonetheless, AOCs remain the

   best way for markets where knowledge of fiber optic communications

   is scarce to derive the benefits of optical networking. Soon, other

   markets will pick up on how AOCs can help them shift towards fiber

   optics. These include not only a broad range of data communications

   applications, but also digital signage and various consumer

   electronics applications. CIR estimates that within five years,

   the worldwide AOC market will have reached $1.9 billion."

[san-tech][02514] 米政府スーパーコンピュータ用光ファイバ部品に $200,000投資

Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 02:24:46 +0900
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GigOptix社のプレスリリースです：

"GigOptix Receives Grant to Customize Modulators for Government 

 Supercomputing Applications", Aug 02, 2010

  http://ir.gigoptix.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=225697&p=RssLanding&cat=news&id=1455003

  "today announced that it has secured a grant for $200,000 in research

   and development funds to customize the Company's proprietary LX8400

   40Gb/S Thin Film Polymer on Silicon (TFPS(TM)) Mach Zehnder (MZ) 

   modulator for use in an ongoing Government Supercomputing program."

  "Following the completion of a previous program where a GigOptix 

   modulator was able to successfully transmit 40Gb/s data at the extremely

   low temperatures of 40° Kelvin or -233° Celsius, this latest grant 

   will be used to further optimize the low temperature operation of the 

   design to enable optical links in next generation peta-flop class 

   supercomputers between processors running at ultra low temperatures 

   and large scale memory running at room temperatures."

[san-tech][03245] PIANO+ (Photonic-based Internet Access Networks of the Future): EC Photonics Networking Project

Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2011 10:44:54 +0900
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またストレージの本筋から離れますが、

欧州 (参加国: Austria, Germany, Poland, the UK and Israel) の Photonics

プロジェクト：PIANO+: Photonic-based Internet Access Networks of the

Futureの紹介記事です：

"EC chips in a third for 22.3M EUR splurge on photonic networking"

 I see the light, and the light is fast

 29th June 2011, The Register

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/29/ec_fibre/

  "The European Commission is spending 7.43M EUR on developing

   technologies for better fibre networking, with five member countries

   stumping up twice that for local funding."

[san-tech][03238] Slide: Workshop Energy Efficient Networking and Systems at IPR 2010 (2010/07/25)

Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2011 21:07:58 +0900
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一年近く前に開催されたワークショップですが、講演資料の多くが公開されて
います (残念ながら、Cisco、Juniper社の発表資料は非公開です)。

Workshop 1: Energy Efficient Networking and Systems
 July 25, 2011
 Integrated Photonics Research, Silicon and Nano Photonics (IPR) 2010
  http://www.osa.org/Meetings/topical_meetings/IPR/Program_2010.aspx#workshops

  "This workshop will promote discussions on energy efficient networks
   and systems. New networking architectures, protocols,
   routing/protection algorithms as well as new systems architectures
   will be covered in this workshop. The role of optics vs. electronics,
   and hybrid use of optical and electrical technologies in networks
   or systems are also of our interest."

[san-tech][03220] IBM Power 775：光ファイバー (120Gbps) で筐体間を接続

Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 22:20:49 +0900
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2012/07/09
"Avago Technologies Announces High-Density 120 Gbps Parallel Optical Solutions
 For Cloud Computing and Data Center Applications"
 June 26, 2012
  http://www.avagotech.com/pages/en/press/minipod_cxp/

"Industry underestimating 25 Gigabit parallel optics challenge"
 July 6, 2012, Gazettabyte
  http://www.gazettabyte.com/home/2012/7/6/industry-underestimating-25-gigabit-parallel-optics-challeng.html

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IBM Power 775筐体間は光ファイバー (120Gbps) で接続するそうです：
(最大 2,048ノード、3リンクホップ以下)

"Boosting high-performance computing with optics"
 JUNE 28, 2011, Gazettabyte
  http://www.gazettabyte.com/home/2011/6/28/boosting-high-performance-computing-with-optics.html

  "IBM has adopted optical interfaces for its latest POWER7-based
   high-end computer system. Gazettabyte spoke to IBM Fellow,
   Ed Seminaro, about high-performance computing and the need for
   optics to address bandwidth and latency requirements."
.....
  "Using optical engines, each node - a specialised computing card -
   has a total bandwidth of 224, 120 Gigabit-per-second (12x10Gbps)
   VCSEL-based transmitters and 224, 120Gbps receivers. The interfaces
   can interconnect up to 2,048 nodes, over half a million POWER7
   cores, with a maximum network diameter of only three link hops.

   IBM claims that with the development of the Power 775, it has
   demonstrated the superiority of optics over copper for high-end
   computing designs."

"Optical amplifier with world record low noise", 20 Jun 2011, Chalmers University of Technology

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スエーデン Chalmers University of Technologyのプレスリリースです：

"Optical amplifier with world record low noise"
 20 Jun 2011, Chalmers University of Technology
  http://www.chalmers.se/en/news/Pages/Optical-amplifier-with-world-record-low-noise.aspx
.....
  "The researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have, by using
   a so-called phase-sensitive fiber-optic parametric amplifier, PSA,
   reduced the noise figure to 1 dB. In traditional erbium-doped fiber
   amplifiers the noise figure is 3 dB at best, resulting in loss of
   signal integrity. 1 dB is the lowest noise ever reported in any kind
   of amplifier with reasonably large signal gain. This represents
   a breakthrough also because it is implemented in a practical way,
   making it potentially very attractive in various applications
   - most notably in high capacity optical communication systems."

[san-tech][03049] 講演資料：US, Spring 2011 Internet2 Member Meeting (2011/04/18 - 20)

Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 12:47:17 +0900
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2011年 4月 18～20日に開催されていた

Spring 2011 Internet2 Member Meeting, 18?20 April 2011
  http://events.internet2.edu/2011/spring-mm/

の講演資料の多くが公開されています(一部ビデオも公開：特殊なマークあり)。
※基本的には、[Session Evaluation] と記載されているセッションです。


All Days Agenda
  http://events.internet2.edu/2011/spring-mm/agenda.cfm?types=&details=&timespan=all

[san-tech][03154] PLX: PCIe Gen3 over Opticalクラスター接続をデモ予定 (2011/6/22, 23)

Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 08:31:26 +0900
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PLX Technologyのプレスリリースです：

"PLX Technology to Demonstrate PCI Express over Optical,
 Present on PCIe as a Clustering Interconnect at PCI-SIG DevCon"
 June 6, 2011
  http://www.plxtech.com/about/news/pr/2011/0606

  "...today announced it will demonstrate PCI Express (PCIe) Gen3
   switching over optical cabling at the upcoming PCI Special
   Interest Groups (PCI-SIGR) Developers Conference (DevCon),
   June 22-23, Santa Clara, Calif."

[san-tech][03167] Re: Univ of Washington、Intelと共同で Silicon Photonic Chipsセンタ （OpSIS） 設立

Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 16:46:52 +0900
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[san-tech][02937] Univ of Washington、Intelと共同で Silicon Photonic Chipsセンタ （OpSIS） 設立

このプロジェクトについて Research@Intelのエントリーにありました。

"OpSIS: Helping researchers to develop a new industry"
 February 01, 2011,
 Mario Paniccia, Intel Fellow and director of the Photonics Technology Lab
  http://blogs.intel.com/research/2011/02/opsis.php

最後の一節
  "As a final note - OpSIS will be important not just for innovation,
   but for education. In order to develop a new industry, we need to
   develop a new generation of engineers. OpSIS will provide university
   students with the ability to build their own silicon photonics
   experiments - a necessary capability that doesn't exist today.
   These students of today will become the innovators and leaders of
   tomorrow that grow this nascent industry into one that touches
   people's lives in ways we can't even predict today. This is an
   exciting time for silicon photonics and the potential impact it will
   have to everyone's lives."

[san-tech][03166] Re: "Intel、シリコンフォトニクス技術で50Gbps通信に成功", 2010/07/28, PC Watch (Intelプレスリリース, July 27, 2010)

Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 16:27:16 +0900
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[san-tech][02494] "Intel、シリコンフォトニクス技術で50Gbps通信に成功", 2010/07/28, PC Watch (Intelプレスリリース, July 27, 2010)

2011年 6月 7, 8日に開催された、Research＠Intel Day June 2011でもデモが
公開されたそうです：

"Data Transfer at Light Speed"
 06.14.2011, MIT Technology Review, 1:11のビデオ
  http://www.technologyreview.com/video/?vid=714

  "At Intel Research Day, the company demonstrated some of its silicon
   photonics technology for the first time. The goal of this work is
   to speed data transfer by replacing today's electrical wiring with
   faster, more efficient fiber-optic connections."

[san-tech][02777] 1Tｂｐｓを 2015年、100Tｂｐｓ Ethernetを 2020年を目標とする研究所設立 (UCSB TOEC)

Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 19:18:19 +0900
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米 UCSB (University of California Santa Barbara)に、2015年に 1Terabit
2020年に 100Terabit Ethernetを目標とする研究所：Terabit Optical Ethernet
Center (TOEC) が産学協同で設立されました：

"Tomorrow's Internet: 1000 times faster
 UCSB-led team developing next-generation Ethernet to handle surging
 traffic, support cloud computing, emerging applications"
 October 20, 2010
  http://engineering.ucsb.edu/news/468

  "A new research center has been launched at the University of
   California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) to make that a reality. Researchers
   with the Terabit Optical Ethernet Center (TOEC) will develop the
   technology necessary for a new generation of Ethernet a thousand times
   faster, and much more energy efficient, than today's most advanced
   networks. They are aiming for 1 Terabit Ethernet over optical fiber
   - 1 trillion bits per second - by 2015, with the ultimate goal of
   enabling 100 Terabit Ethernet by 2020."

[san-tech][02613] IBM light-powered link研究紹介, SEPTEMBER 2010, IEEE Spectrum

Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:01:00 +0900
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IBMで進められている光伝送研究の解説です：

"Get on the Optical Bus"
 IBM's light-powered links overcome the greatest speed bump in
 supercomputing: interconnect bandwidth
 By CLINT SCHOW, FUAD DOANY, JEFFREY KASH,
 IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights
 SEPTEMBER 2010, IEEE Spectrum
  http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/optoelectronics/get-on-the-optical-bus/0

前置きが長いけど、

  "At IBM, we have now developed a first-of-its-kind optical data-transfer
   system, or bus, built right onto the circuit board. With it, we will
   soon unveil computer systems 100 times as fast as anything available
   today."

[san-tech][02165] Luxteraプレスリリース (2件)

Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 04:41:25 +0900
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Luxteraのプレスリリースを 2件ほど：

"NOAA Selects Luxtera’s Award-Winning AOC to Power Multi-Room Data Center"
 March 15, 2010
  http://www.luxtera.com/20100315211/noaa-selects-luxtera%E2%80%99s-award-winning-aoc-to-power-multi-room-data-center.html

  "National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) selected
   Luxtera's award-winning 40G Active Optical Cable (AOC), Blazar,
   to interconnect its multi-room data center. Spanning the distance
   from one to 4,000 meters, Blazar provides the required extended
   reach to interconnect supercomputing systems and data storage
   in a campus environment across multiple rooms and floors."
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
  http://www.noaa.gov/

[san-tech][03039] 講演資料：DOE Workshop on Terabits Networks for Extreme Scale Science (2011/02/16, 17)

Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 18:44:25 +0900
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2011年 2月、US DOE主催で以下のワークショップが開催され講演資料が公開
されました：

Terabit Networks for Extreme Scale Science, February 16-17, 2011
  https://indico.bnl.gov/internalPage.py?pageId=0&confId=319

ワークショップの目的等は、既にまとめられたレポート
"Terabit Networks for Extreme-Scale Science"
  https://indico.bnl.gov/getFile.py/access?resId=0&materialId=5&confId=319
※↑PDFファイルです。
の EXECUTIVE SUMMARYと Table of Contentsから

[san-tech][02628] 講演資料：Photonics in Switching, July 25-28 2010

Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 13:14:27 +0900
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2010年 7月 25日 ～ 28日に The Optical Society (OSA)主催で開催された

Photonics in Switching, July 25-28 2010, Optical Society (OSA)
  http://www.osa.org/meetings/topical_meetings/ps/Program.aspx

講演資料が、上記 Webページで公開されています。

About Photonics in Switching
  "The Photonics in Switching Topical Meeting addresses all research
   areas in which photonic technologies are applied to innovate and
   enhance the future networking, computing, and Internet
   infrastructures. This area includes photonic switching devices,
   high-throughput optical systems, efficient optical network
   architectures, data center networking, and computing systems with
   optical interconnects, optical cross-connects and interconnects,
   integrated photonics and system on chip, optical routers and switches.
   In particular, developing optical subsystems, optical processors and
   novel integrated circuit requires proper balancing of photonic and
   electronic technologies. Optical infrastructures will leverage the
   opportunities offered by photonics to answer the emerging needs of
   the next decades such as the realization of all-optical network and
   computing elements, the reduction of network power consumption and
   device footprint by integration."

[san-tech][02937] Univ of Washington、Intelと共同で Silicon Photonic Chipsセンタ （OpSIS） 設立

Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 14:37:53 +0900
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2011/06/14
[san-tech][03167] Re: Univ of Washington、Intelと共同で Silicon Photonic Chipsセンタ （OpSIS） 設立
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Univ of Washingtonが Intelと共同で Silicon Photonic Chipsセンタ （OpSIS） を
設立します：
"New center aims to dramatically lower barrier to making silicon
 photonic chips"
 Feb. 1, 2011
  http://www.washington.edu/news/articles/new-center-aims-to-dramatically-lower-barrier-to-making-silicon-photonic-chips

  "The University of Washington today announced the launch of a new
   program, co-funded by Intel Corp., that aims to make it dramatically
   easier and cheaper to manufacture silicon chips that combine light
   and electronics, enabling the next generation of computer chips.
   This program will provide access to high-end semiconductor
   manufacturing, enabling any researcher in the world to build
   integrated electronic-photonic circuits in silicon."