Cable for Roadrunner critical Petaflop rates
EMCORE Connects Cables (ECC) are being used by IBM on the DOE computer nicknamed Roadrunner, the first supercomputer to break the petaflop computing barrier. A supplier of compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the broadband, fiber optic, satellite and terrestrial solar power markets, EMCORE also produces optical fiber Connects Cables (ECC).
ECC are high-performance InfiniBand interconnects that operate at high-speed 20 Gb/s data rates with and extremely low Bit Error rate of 10(-15). Due to this combination of high performance and excellent reliability, IBM chose EMCORE Connects Cables for Roadrunner, the Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration funded High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster that will be housed at it's Los Alamos National Laboratory. In June, the DOE announced that Roadrunner was the first system to break 1,000trn calculations per second mark - the Petaflop.
Stephen Krasulick, VP and GM of EMCORE's Digital Products division stated, "Two years of diligent work between the ECC cables team and IBM have made the era of petaflop computing a reality."
EMCORE is demonstrating a new 40 Gb/s ECC in conjunction with Mellanox Technologies at the International Supercomputing conference in Dresden this month. ECC currently support both 20 Gb/s Double Data Rate (DDR) and 10 Gb/s Single Data Rate (SDR) and are available in lengths from 1 to 100 meters.
Source: http://www.emcore.com/fiber_optics/