Nocs 2010 - The 4th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip
Nocs - Async 2010 Grenoble
Speakers
Keynote speakers
Photonic Chip-Scale Interconnection Networks
for Performance-Energy Optimized Computing
Pr. Keren Bergman
Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University
Director of Lightwave Research Laboratory
Abstract: As chip multiprocessors (CMPs) scale to increasing numbers of cores and greater on-chip computational power, the gap between the available off-chip bandwidth and that which is required to appropriately feed the processors continues to widen under current memory access architectures. For many high-performance computing applications, the bandwidth available for both on- and off-chip communications can play a vital role in efficient execution due to the use of data-parallel or data-centric algorithms. Electronic interconnected systems are increasingly bound by their communications infrastructure and the associated power dissipation of high-bandwidth data movement. Recent advances in chip-scale silicon photonic technologies have created the potential for developing optical interconnection networks that can offer highly energy efficient communications and significantly improve computing performance-per-Watt. This talk will examine the design and performance of photonic networks-on-chip architectures that support both on-chip communication and off-chip memory access in an energy efficient manner.
Bio:
Keren Bergman is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University where she also directs the Lightwave Research Laboratory (http://lightwave.ee.columbia.edu).
She leads multiple research programs on optical interconnection networks for advanced computing systems, data centers, optical packet switched routers, and chip multiprocessor nanophotonic networks-on-chip.
Dr. Bergman holds a Ph.D. from M.I.T. and is a Fellow of the IEEE and of the OSA. She currently serves as the co-Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking.
