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abstract: Standard, electrical-based, computers rapidly approach fundamental limitation. Alternative principles should be explored in order to keep computing developments at the current pace or even faster. Optical computing has major potential in providing a solution through its use of photons to perform computations instead of electrons. This workshop will be an opportunity to bring people together from optics and computer science who are interested in establishing important principles and in developing optical computers. This will also be an opportunity to meet with pioneering figures and to discuss the future of optical supercomputing. Last year's International Workshop on Optical SuperComputing, OSC 2008 in Vienna, was a remarkable success as we anticipate this year to be.

abstract: OSC, the International Workshop on Optical SuperComputing, is an annual forum for research presentations on all facets of optical computing for solving hard computation tasks. Optical computing devices have the potential to be the very next computing infrastructure. Optical computing presents an alternative to the frequency limitations, cross-talk phenomena and soft-errors of electronic devices. The natural parallelism of optical computing devices, coupled with the advance in fiber optics and optical switches make optical computing commercially viable. Research contributions to the theory, design, specification, analysis, implementation, or application of optical supercomputers are solicited.