Title :
Photonics for HPEC: A low-powered solution for high bandwidth applications
Author :
Robinson, E. ; Hendry, G. ; Gleyzer, V. ; Chan, J. ; Carloni, L.P. ; Bliss, N. ; Bond, R. ; Bergman, K.
Author_Institution :
MIT Lincoln Labs., Lexington, MA, USA
Abstract :
Photonics offer high bandwidth for minimal power. While critical for the future of HPC, this has an immediate impact in HPEC, where power is critical. Here, a 4-10x improvement in performance/watt can be demonstrated.
Keywords :
optical computing; HPC; HPEC; high performance computing; high performance embedded computing; photonics; Multicore processing; Optical ring resonators; Photonics; Random access memory; Switching circuits; Time division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2011 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0213-6
