October 16th, 2008

Data-intensive, high-throughput, and transaction-intensive applications all require fast, seamless flow of multiple data streams. These kinds of applications have been hampered by data congestion created in standard interconnects or switches that cannot switch fast enough.

So Lightfleet eliminated the switch.

With its Corowave™ optical interconnect, Lightfleet is at the forefront of the next breakthrough in multiprocessor computing: speeding data flow by using light to connect processors. The Corowave interconnect is the first to use broadcast light to create a true non-blocking architecture.

Now, multiple processors connected to a Corowave interconnect can broadcast data to all of the others, and data arrives at each processor at the same time, at the same high speed, with the same low latency. No more delays. No more congestion.

As a result, computing with the Corowave interconnect gives you All-to-All™ connectivity that lets you shave milliseconds from transactions, get better answers faster, rapidly respond to changing conditions, and slice through peaks in the daily ebb and flow of data.

All to all, all at once™

To address high-throughput, low-latency multiprocessor applications, Lightfleet has created the Corowave™ optical interconnect. The Corowave interconnect has the following attributes:

  • Removes communications bottlenecks
  • Congestion-free data flow
  • Uses broadcast light
  • All nodes receive data simultaneously
  • Bandwidth scales linearly as nodes are added
  • Isolates faults so no node can impair efficiency

The Corowave optical interconnect is designed into a 32-node computing system, poised to change the way computing is done, with its ease of use and power-saving, high-performance, space-saving profile.