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A reconfigurable, regular-topology cluster/datacenter network using commodity optical switches

<2>The paper reports work within IBM’s Software Defined Networks (SDN) and Exascale Systems research programmes. The results sparked a series of prototyping and testing work within IBM to further test the ideas in the paper within specific datacenter infrastucture types and lines of products. Part of this subsequent integration has been done in collaboration with the optical switch vendor Crossfiber who used this research as a driver for their product line (www.crossfiber.com/Pages/whitepapers.html). This new wave of fine-grained network and switch programmability inspired by this research has led to optical vendor Calient directly supporting deep programmability with Openflow (http://www.calient.net/2013/09/calient-technologies-announces-availability-and-interoperability-results-of-openflow-api-for-s320-optical-circuit-switch-2/).