A Survey on Optical Interconnects for Data Centers
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A Survey on Optical Interconnects for
Data Centers
Speaker: Shih-Chieh Chien
Adviser: Prof Dr. Ho-Ting Wu
Outline
Introduction
Current Data Center
Network traffic characteristics
Optical technology
Architectures
Comparison
Conclusion
Reference
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Introduction
Internet traffic
Emerging application
e.g. Stream video, Social network, Cloud computing
Data-intensive
e.g. cloud computing, search engines, etc.
High interaction(servers in the data center)
Power consumption(inside the rack)
each rack must the same → thermal constraints
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Blade server
資料來源:wikipedia
Rack mount
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Introduction (cont.)
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Introduction (cont.)
IT power percentage
Server 40%, Storage 37%, Network devices 23%
Include HVAC (Heating-Ventilation and Air-Conditioning)
ICT GHG from 14% to 18%(2007 ~ 2020)
Goal
High throughput, reduced latency, low power consumption
→ Using optical network
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Introduction (cont.)
Optical network
Opaque networks (older telecom. network)
OEO(optical-electrical-optical)
Main draw back is power hungry
all-optical networks (currently)
Device
Optical cross-connects (OXC)
Reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers(ROADM)
Point-to-point links( based on multi-mode fibers)
Provide 75% energe saving
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Current DC with commodity switches
Data center
3 tiers
Core switches, Aggregate switches, and ToR
Advantage
Scaled easily
Fault tolerant
DrawBack
High power consumption
High number of links required
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Current DC with commodity switches
Data center
3 tiers
Core switches, Aggregate switches, and ToR switches
Advantage
Scaled easily
Fault tolerant
DrawBack
High power consumption
High number of links required
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Fat-tree
Core level
Aggregate level
資料來源:wikipedia
Access level
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ToR switch
…
1Gbps links
資料來源:IBM
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Current DC with commodity switches
Data center
3 tiers
Core switches, Aggregate switches, and ToR
Advantage
Scaled easily
Fault tolerant
DrawBack
High power consumption
High number of links required
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Current DC with commodity switches
Data center
3 tiers
Core switches, Aggregate switches, and ToR
Advantage
Scaled easily
Fault tolerant
DrawBack
High power consumption
High number of links required
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Network traffic characteristics
Three classes (categorized by Microsoft research)
University campus DC
private enterprise DC
cloud-computing DC
Model traffic
Interarrival rate distribution of the packet
Lognormal distribution (in the private DC)
Weibull distribution (in the campus DC)
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Network traffic characteristics
Three classes (categorized by Microsoft research)
University campus DC
private enterprise DC
cloud-computing DC
Model traffic
Interarrival rate distribution of the packet
Lognormal distribution (in the private DC)
Weibull distribution (in the campus DC)
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Network traffic characteristics (cont.)
Main empirical findings
Applications
e.g. HTTP, HTTPS, LDAP, Database。
Traffic flow locality
Inter rack traffic 10%~80%
Intra rack traffic
Traffic flow size and duration
Concurrent traffic flows
Packet size
Link utilization
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Optical Technology
Splitter and combiner
Coupler
Arrayed-Waveguid Grating(AWG)
Wavelength Selective Switch(WSS)
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Optical Technology (cont.)
Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems Switches(MEMSswtch)
Semiconductor Optical Amplifier(SOA)
Tunable Wavelength Converters(TWC)
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Architectures (C-Through)
Electrical network
Optical network
Rack servers
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Architectures (C-Through (cont.))
Hybrid electrical-optical network
Traffic monitoring system
Optical configuration manager
Traffic in the ToR switch
Demutiplexed by VLAN-based routing
Packet based and circuit based network
Evaluation
Reduce completion time of the application
Reduce latency between two nodes
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Comparison
Technology
All optical interconnection
Hybrid interconnection
Connectivity
Circuit based switching
Based on MEMS switch
Packet based switching
Array fixed lasers
Fast tunable transmitters
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Comparison Hybrid & all-optical
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Comparison
Technology
All optical interconnection
Hybrid interconnection
Connectivity
Circuit based switching
Based on MEMS switch
Packet based switching
Array fixed lasers
Fast tunable transmitters
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Comparison(connectivity)
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Comparison(cont.)
Scalability
Constrained by what?
Number of switch optical port
Number of wavelength channels
Capacity
Routing
Prototypes
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Comparison(scalability)
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Comparison(cont.)
Scalability
Constrained by what?
Number of switch optical port
Number of wavelength channels
Capacity
Routing
Prototypes
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Comparison(capacity)
Capacity limitation technology
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Comparison(cont.)
Scalability
Constrained by what?
Number of switch optical port
Number of wavelength channels
Capacity
Routing
Prototypes
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Comparison(cont.)
Scalability
Constrained by what?
Number of switch optical port
Number of wavelength channels
Capacity
Routing
Prototypes
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Comparison(prototype)
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Cost and power consumption
Commercially available (lower price)
c-Through, Helios, and Proteus (optical modules)
Data-vortex, and DOS (SOA modules)
Intresting thing
OPEX (operation cost)
CAPEX(equipment's cost)
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Cost and power consumption(cont.)
Simulation
Replacement of current switches
Data center with 1536 servers
Two-tier topology
512 ToR switches
16 aggregate switches (32x10 Gbps ports) →each arround $5k
Power consumption will be 77kW
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Cost = OPEXCDCN − (CAPEXOI + OPEXOI)
where,
CDCN : CurrentDataCenterNetwork
OI : OpticalInterconnects
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Conclusion
Optical interconnets (promising solution for DC)
High BW, low latency , and reduced energy consumption
Hybrid proposed as an upgrade to current networks
Schemes based on SOA for switching
Faster reconfiguration time than MEMS switches
Proteus shows high performance optical networks with
readily available optical componetnts
Schemes based on SOA and TWC
Provide higher capacites and better scalability
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Reference
http://www.hirose.co.jp/cataloge_hp/e83001002.pdf
http://www.answers.com/topic/optical-switch
G. Wang, D. G. Andersen, M. Kaminsky, K. Papagiannaki, T. E. Ng, M.
Kozuch, and M. Ryan, “c-Through: Part-time Optics in Data Centers,” in
Proc. ACM SIGCOMM 2010 conference on SIGCOMM, ser.
SIGCOMM ’10, 2010, pp. 327–338.
Kachris, Christoforos; Tomkos, Ioannis; , "A Survey on Optical
Interconnects for Data Centers," Communications Surveys & Tutorials,
IEEE , vol.14, no.4, pp.1021-1036, Fourth Quarter 2012
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