DocumentCode
2189143
Title
Do parallel computers really need optical interconnection networks?
Author
Rudolph, Larry
Author_Institution
Lab. for Comput. Sci., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
fYear
1998
fDate
15-17 Jun 1998
Firstpage
176
Lastpage
183
Abstract
Several recent architectural trends appear to require some of the special properties of optical interconnection networks. The memory hierarchy will probably get deeper and the hardware will be more dynamic. Reconfigurable hardware and software are the subject of intense research. It is likely that the basic word size and the number of communication streams will be dynamically configurable. Optical interconnection networks, and in particular bit parallel free-space implementations, may provide the necessary flexibility
Keywords
optical interconnections; parallel architectures; reconfigurable architectures; bit parallel; free-space; memory hierarchy; optical interconnection networks; reconfigurable hardware; Computer architecture; Computer networks; Concurrent computing; Delay; Hardware; Microprocessors; Optical computing; Optical interconnections; Random access memory; VLIW;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Massively Parallel Processing, 1998. Proceedings. Fifth International Conference on
Conference_Location
Las Vegas, NV
Print_ISBN
0-8186-8572-7
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/MPPOI.1998.682141
Filename
682141
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