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The high data loads of the future--and even the present--require that optical communications platforms continue to get faster, leaner, and cheaper. At the Optical Fiber Communication Conference in Los Angeles today, IBM will report on a prototype optical chip it has developed that has hit a significant milestone in optical data transfer: one terabit--that’s one trillion bits--per second.
That’s like downloading 500 HD movies at once, a speed matching the bandwidth consumed by 100,000 users at today’s average high-speed Web rates. It’s important to note that this a parallel optics chip technology, not a long-range fiber optic serial communications technology, so it’s not going to instantaneously boost the speed at which data traverses the oceans. But between computers on a local network (between different servers in a data center, for instance) this technology could provide some pretty searing speeds.
The chip itself gets its name from the fact that there are 48 tiny holes bored through a standard silicon CMOS chip that connects on the back side with 24 receiver and 24 transmitter channels. These channels allow a whole lot of data to move through the chip in both directions simultaneously, allowing for these terabit-per-second transfer speeds.
What’s more, in proper IBM fashion the chip isn’t some kind of behind-the-glass prototype never destined for commercial production. The company claims it achieves these record data speeds with excellent power efficiency--that a 100-watt light bulb could power 20 of the optical modules. They are also constructed from off-the-shelf, commercially available components. But there’s no word yet on when, exactly, this manufacturer-friendly optical device might begin taking advantage of those economies of scale and deliver the next-generation of cloud computing and data center technologies.
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Source: [url]http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-03/holey-optochip-first-chip-transfer-one-trillion-bits-second-optically-here[/url]
Wowzers.
I want two.
Looks like gold, I'll take twenty.
[QUOTE=KILLTHIS;35096269]I want two.[/QUOTE]
Fuck that I'm getting twenty!
Almost as fast as the speed of thought
Wow... I probably can't afford, but I really want one.
Alright. Let me just get rid of these quickly...
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[quote]That’s like downloading 500 HD movies at once, a speed matching the bandwidth consumed by 100,000 users at today’s average high-speed Web rates.[/quote]
This makes it the ideal chip for internet porn!
2. But can it run Crysis?
3. One step closer to SkyNet!
4. The chip will require an Olympic pool or a stadium-sized heatsink to cool properly.
5. Can I run it on Windows 95?
Now we can resume intelligent conversation.
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Not bad; I can't wait to see this kind of stuff integrated into graphics cards.
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[QUOTE=Laferio;35096277]Looks like gold, I'll take twenty.[/QUOTE]
Now I can only imagine what a multi-core of these bad boys can do.
So we have the chip ready.
Now all we need are SSDs capable of such read/write speed.
[quote]that a 100-watt light bulb could power 20 of the optical modules[/quote]
I wasn't aware a lightbulb could power anything
That's amazing. I absolutely love what the future holds for us. I can't wait until one day we look back on iPads and iPhones like we do toward the Commodore 64.
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The most descriptive title I've seen.
[QUOTE=mac338;35096600][IMG]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/44722719/The.jpg[/IMG]
The most descriptive title I've seen.[/QUOTE]
Got you hooked to look though :v:
[QUOTE=Bredirish123;35096581]That's amazing. I absolutely love what the future holds for us. I can't wait until one day we look back on iPads and iPhones like we do toward the Commodore 64.[/QUOTE]
There's also the matter of how technology has been trending towards exponential growth: it took roughly twenty years to go from Commodore 64s to get to modern personal computers, then five more to get computers twice as powerful, then barely three more before iPhones, Tablet computers, and so on.
Now just imagine the day when [b]this[/b] is looked back on like a Commodore 64.
[QUOTE=mac338;35096600][IMG]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/44722719/The.jpg[/IMG]
The most descriptive title I've seen.[/QUOTE]
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Do these have to be super-cooled or something, and can they be manufactured compatible with motherboards currently on the market?
[QUOTE=Spaztique;35096427]Alright. Let me just get rid of these quickly...
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This makes it the ideal chip for internet porn!
2. But can it run Crysis?
3. One step closer to SkyNet!
4. The chip will require an Olympic pool or a stadium-sized heatsink to cool properly.
5. Can I run it on Windows 95?
Now we can resume intelligent conversation.[/QUOTE]
Damn you! How else are we going to whore for funny ratings?! [IMG]http://i.somethingawful.com/forumsystem/emoticons/emot-saddowns.gif[/IMG]
Great.
Now get back to work on quantum computing.
[QUOTE=Talkbox;35096327]Almost as fast as the speed of thought[/QUOTE]
Funfact: the speed of electrical impulses in the brain is slower than a donkey cart.
[QUOTE=CatFodder;35097907]Funfact: the speed of electrical impulses in the brain is slower than a donkey cart.[/QUOTE]
Donkeys can be pretty fast.
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4. The chip will require an Olympic pool or a stadium-sized heatsink to cool properly.
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This isnt Nvidia. This will only take a small fan.
[QUOTE=KILLTHIS;35096269]I want two.[/QUOTE]
I want eight.
[video=youtube;SWoYmTAfDbk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWoYmTAfDbk[/video]
[QUOTE=areolop;35100200]This isnt Nvidia. This will only take a small fan.[/QUOTE]
Maybe ATI gpus would be hotter if the drivers didn't max the fan speed.
how the challenge of having ram that can change it's state fast enough.
Of course at those speeds, [i]everything else[/i] becomes the bottleneck.
But can it download A New Zero?
[QUOTE=Marcolade;35097800]Damn you! How else are we going to whore for funny ratings?! [IMG]http://i.somethingawful.com/forumsystem/emoticons/emot-saddowns.gif[/IMG][/QUOTE]
You mean the Dumb ratings. I think I took a bullet for everyone posting those. (Or rather, several bullets.)
Just so everyone knows 1 trillion bits = 116.415322 gigabytes
[QUOTE=Spaztique;35102381]You mean the Dumb ratings. I think I took a bullet for everyone posting those. (Or rather, several bullets.)[/QUOTE]
21 bullets at the moment.
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That's bits... not bytes. Doesn't that number need to be divided by 8 first?
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