End-System Network Interface Controller for 100 Gb/s Wide Area Networks: Final Report

Technical Report · Fri Aug 30 00:00:00 EDT 2013

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1091514· OSTI ID:1091514

Wen, Jesse ^[1]

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1. Acadia Optronics LLC, Rockville, MD (United States)

In recent years, network bandwidth requirements have scaled multiple folds, pushing the need for the development of data exchange mechanisms at 100 Gb/s and beyond. High performance computing, climate modeling, large-scale storage, and collaborative scientific research are examples of applications that can greatly benefit by leveraging high bandwidth capabilities of the order of 100 Gb/s. Such requirements and advances in IEEE Ethernet standards, Optical Transport Unit4 (OTU4), and host-system interconnects demand a network infrastructure supporting throughput rates of the order of 100 Gb/s with a single wavelength. To address such a demand Acadia Optronics in collaboration with the University of New Mexico, proposed and developed a end-system Network Interface Controller (NIC) for the 100Gbps WANs. Acadia’s 100G NIC employs an FPGA based system with a high-performance processor interconnect (PCIe 3.0) and a high capacity optical transmission link (CXP) to provide data transmission at the rate of 100 Gbps.

• Research Organization: Acadia Optronics LLC, Rockville, MD (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC)
• DOE Contract Number: SC0003550
• OSTI ID: 1091514
• Report Number(s): DOESC03550
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING
100 Gb/s network interface controller
end systems
wide area networks
high performance computing
host system interconnect