Abstract
The relative benefits of macro- and micro-optical approaches to parallel interconnection architectures are reviewed. Macro-optics shows significant scaling advantages over micro-optics in volume, latency, and power consumption in interconnection fabrics with high minimum bisection bandwidth.
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