Third consortium meeting successfully conducted

Berlin, June 2013 – The third PhoxTroT consortium meeting took place on the 20th and 21st of June 2013. Our partners from ICCS/NTUA  (Institute of Communication and Computer Systems/ National Technical University of Athens) organised the conference in Greece. Our next meeting is coming up in October and will be held in Valencia/ Spain.

Optical communications make data centres more efficient

Berlin, October 2012 – Major data centres and supercomputers will soon be more cost and energy efficient, and at the same time will be even more powerful. Fraunhofer scientists and 17 partners from business and research in the European Union have set themselves this ambitious goal in the “PhoxTroT” project. The key is optical data … Continue reading “Optical communications make data centres more efficient”

PhoxTroT Kick-off Meeting in Berlin

Berlin, October 2012 – The project PhoxTroT “Photonics for High-Performance, Low-Cost & Low-Energy Data Centers, High Performance Computing Systems: Terabit/s Optical Interconnect Technologies for On-Board, Board-to-Board, Rack-to-Rack Data Links” started on October 1, 2012. The kick-off meeting was held on October 8-9, 2012 at Fraunhofer IZM in Berlin. The meeting started with an introduction of the 18 Partners and … Continue reading “PhoxTroT Kick-off Meeting in Berlin”