1 Levels of Abstraction in Computing Systems and Optical Interconnection Technology. - 1 Introduction. - 2 Levels of abstraction in problem solving. - 3 Alternative systems of levels of abstraction for general purpose computing?. - 4 General purpose systems versus special purpose systems. - 5 Introducing optics into general purpose systems. - 6 Discussion. - 7 Conclusions. - 2 Smart-Pixel Technology Current Status and Future Trends. - 1 Introduction. - 2 Smart-Pixel Technology. - 3 Basic considerations. - 4 The bitonic sorter. - 5 Future Trends. - 6 Potential Application. - 7 Conclusion. - 3 Energy Requirement and Speed Analysis of Electrical and Free-Space Optical Digital Interconnections. - 1 Introduction. - 2 Assumptions. - 3 Definition of Interconnection and Estimation of Energy. - 4 Speed and Energy of Off-Chip Electrical Interconnections. - 5 Speed and Energy of On-Chip Electrical Interconnections. - 6 Optical Interconnections. - 7 Effects of Technology Scaling. - 8 Conclusions. - 4 Low Latency Asynchronous Optical Bus for Distributed Multiprocessor Systems. - 1 Introduction. - 2 Organization of the optical bus. - 3 30-100 Gb / s Optical Bus with full electronic packet processing. - 4 0. 51 Tb / s Optical bus with photonic gates. - 5 Conclusion. - 5 Optical Free-Space Interconnections Inside Parallel Architectures: Oneracert Activities. - 1 Introduction. - 2 Time and Space Multiplexing. - 3 The MILORD Architecture. - 4 The OEDIPE Architecture. - 6 Massively Parallel Computers Using Optical Interconnects The Synoptique Project. - 1 Introduction. - 2 Description of Sympati2 and Symphonie. - 3 Limitations of the Electrical Interconnections. - 4 Synoptique project. - 5 Conclusion and future work. - 7 Optical Array Logic Network Computing: Concept and Implementation. - 1 Introduction. - 2 Optical ArrayLogic. - 3 OAL-NC Architecture. - 4 Implementation of OAL-NC. - 5 Multiple Process Embodiment. - 6 Possible OAL-NC System Construction. - 7 Summary. - 8 Towards Effective Models for Optical Passive Star Based Lightwave Networks. - 1 Introduction. - 2 OPSbased networks. - 3 Stack-graphs. - 4 Modeling OPSbased networks. - 5 Applying the models. - 6 Conclusions and directions for further research. - 9 Embedding Properties of Reconfigurable Partitionable Optical Networks. - 1 Introduction. - 2 The Hyperplane Reconfigurable Optical Backplane. - 3 Graph and HyperGraph Models for Bus-Based Optical Networks. - 4 A Model for Reconfigurable Partitionable Optical Interconnects. - 5 Combinatorial Optimization Problems Encountered in the Optical Embeddings. - 6 Embeddings of Meshes. - 7 Conclusions. - 10 Time Division Multiplexed Control of All-Optical Interconnection Networks. - 1 Introduction. - 2 Circuit Switching Techniques. - 3 Cost of Communication in TDM Networks. - 4 Communication Cost in Looping Programs. - 5 Conclusions. - 11 Bounds and Analysis Techniques for Greedy Hot-Potato Routing. - 1 Introduction. - 2 The Model Terminology Definitions and Preliminaries. - 3 The Potential Function Analysis: Priority to Restricted Packets. - 4 Priority to Inertial Packets. - 5 Optimal Single-Target Routing on the 2-Dimensional Mesh. - 6 Randomized Single-Target Routing on Higher Dimensional Meshes. - 7 Greedy Routing of Permutations Can be Hard. - 8 Conclusions. - 12 Models for Optically Interconnected Networks. - 1 Introduction. - 2 Switching techniques. - 3 Topologies: from graph to hypergraph models. - 4 Collective communications. - 5 Introducing optical communications in general models of parallelism. - 6 Conclusion. Language: English