A Nanophotonic Interconnect for High-Performance Many-Core Computation

Author

Beausoleil, R.G. ; Ahn, J. ; Binkert, N. ; Davis, A. ; Fattal, D. ; Fiorentino, M. ; Jouppi, N.P. ; McLaren, M. ; Santori, C.M. ; Schreiber, R.S. ; Spillane, S.M. ; Vantrease, D. ; Xu, Q.

Author_Institution

HP Labs., Palo Alto, CA

fYear

2008

fDate

26-28 Aug. 2008

Firstpage

182

Lastpage

189

Abstract

Silicon nanophotonics holds the promise of revolutionizing computing by enabling parallel architectures that combine unprecedented performance and ease of use with affordable power consumption. Here we describe the results of a detailed multiyear design study of dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) on-chip and off-chip interconnects and the device technologies that could improve computing performance by a factor of 20 above industry projections over the next decade.

Keywords

integrated circuit interconnections; low-power electronics; microprocessor chips; parallel architectures; wavelength division multiplexing; affordable power consumption; dense wavelength division multiplexing; high-performance many-core computation; multiyear design; nanophotonic interconnect; off-chip interconnects; on-chip interconnects; parallel architectures; silicon nanophotonics; Application software; Bandwidth; Computer architecture; Concurrent computing; Costs; High performance computing; Integrated circuit interconnections; Sockets; Wavelength division multiplexing; Wires;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High Performance Interconnects, 2008. HOTI '08. 16th IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Stanford, CA

ISSN

1550-4794

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3380-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HOTI.2008.32

Filename

4618592