This paper proposes a hierarchical photoelectric network with an electrical and optical interleaved packet switching scheme for low latency as well as high throughput in high-performance computing systems. To reduce the overhead of electrical plane or preconfiguration structure adopted in conventional optical networks, what we believe to be a novel electrical switch architecture is proposed to perform route computation for both electrical and optical switches simultaneously. Moreover, a fine-grained flow control mechanism is presented to prevent packet drop and improve link utilization. Based on the developed discrete-event simulator with non-permutation, bit permutation, and digit permutation traffic patterns, experimental results show that the proposed network achieves latency and throughput improvements from 2.3% to 17.3% and
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