Title :
Considerations for optoelectronic shared cache parallel computers
Author :
Cheng, L. ; Sawchuk, A.A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Eng., Texas Christian Univ., Fort Worth, TX, USA
Abstract :
Discusses the selection and use of optoelectronic devices in parallel computers to increase the effective processing rate. The coherence problem of keeping consistent copies of data in all caches is resolved by using shared optoelectronic cache memories. The authors investigate the architecture, data and signal modulation, memory management, and its physical implementation. The proposed architecture uses optics for interconnections and electronics for data processing. Thus, it provides high speed and true parallelism
Keywords :
optical information processing; optical interconnections; optoelectronic devices; parallel architectures; shared memory systems; architecture; data and signal modulation; interconnections; memory management; optoelectronic; parallel computers; shared cache; shared optoelectronic cache; Cache memory; Computer architecture; Concurrent computing; Data processing; High speed optical techniques; Memory management; Optical interconnections; Optical modulation; Optoelectronic devices; Signal resolution;
Conference_Titel :
Massively Parallel Processing Using Optical Interconnections, 1994., Proceedings of the First International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Cancun
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-5832-0
DOI :
10.1109/MPPOI.1994.336621
