Designing multi-socket systems using silicon photonics

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Designing multi-socket systems using silicon photonics

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Proceedings of the 23rd international conference on Supercomputing table of contents

Yorktown Heights, NY, USA

POSTER SESSION: Posters table of contents

Pages 521-522

Year of Publication: 2009

ISBN:978-1-60558-498-0

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Scott Beamer	University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
Krste Asanović	University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
Christopher Batten	Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, CA, USA
Ajay Joshi	Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Vladimir Stojanović	Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

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SIGARCH: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture

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ABSTRACT

Future single-board multi-socket systems may be unable to deliver the needed memory bandwidth electrically due to power limitations, which will hurt their ability to drive performance improvements. Energy efficient off-chip silicon photonics could be used to deliver the needed bandwidth, and it could be extended on-chip to create a relatively flat network topology. That flat network may make it possible to implement the same number of cores with a greater number of smaller dies for a cost advantage with negligible performance degradation.

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