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

fYear

1994

fDate

26-27 Apr 1994

Firstpage

241

Lastpage

251

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MPPOI.1994.336621

Filename

336621