Nov 17 2014
Samtec, Inc., today announced that it will demonstrate remote PCI Express® (PCIe®) Gen 3 switching over fiber at the SC14 (Super Computing) Conference, November 17-20, in New Orleans, Louisiana.
The system demonstrated achieves x8 PCIe® Gen 3 data rates (8 GT/s, 64 Gb/s aggregate) to transmit 4k UHD video 100 meters upstream from a PCIe®SSD to a Server and back downstream to a GPU linked to a 4k display.
The demonstration uses Samtec’s unique PCIEO Series Active Optical cable assembly based on low cost VCSEL technology. A miniature optical transceiver is located inside the plug at either end and performs the electrical-to-optical signal conversion over the thin optical fiber.
The PCIEO Series is mating compatible with the iPass™ copper high speed port form-factor allowing standard compliant support for clocking, sideband signaling and idle states. They are also a direct replacement for passive copper cables used for current PCIe® expansion and extension systems enabling simple upgrades for existing systems whilst enabling users to choose the I/O solution that fits their I/O application requirements.
Common PCIe® Gen 3 applications include Remote I/O, GPGPU Computing, and Disaggregated Computing Architectures, to name a few.
Samtec PCIEO Gen 3 cabling extends its current PCIEO Gen 2 cabling line and is beyond a demonstration level product. It is available to ship today.
Source: http://www.samtec.com