Abstract
Recent advances in integrated detectors, laser sources, and modulators have made gigabit/second digital communication links feasible for system applications, High-bandwidth data channels combined with modern workstations can bring multimedia and high-performance distributed computing applications to the desktop. The iPOINT (Illinois Pulsar-based Optical IN- terconnect) testbed is aimed at harnessing the high throughput of fiber optic communication links for message passing among multiple state-of-the-art UNIX desktop workstations using the Pulsar switch, an n × n nonblocking packet switch.1
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