Tools for Exploration of Silicon Photonic Network Designs
Event details
| Date | 07.08.2013 |
| Hour | 10:00 |
| Speaker |
Dr. Sébastien Rumley, Columbia University Bio: Sébastien Rumley received his M.S. and PhD degrees from EPFL in 2005 and 2011 respectively. In his PhD thesis, entitled “Software Framework for Integrated Modelling and Dimensioning of Backbone Optical Networks”, he studied the requirements for software tools and functionalities in the context of long-haul optical network planning. He identified several concepts and techniques permitting to both develop and use home-brew software more efficiently. Since 2012, he is post-doctoral researcher in the Lightwave Research Laboratory, at Columbia University, New York. He applies his techniques in the context of modelling and simulation of silicon photonics enabled HPC systems. |
| Location |
ELE111
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Interconnects have become crucial components of High Performance Computing systems (HPC). Their power consumption, which roughly increases with computing system size, may be a main limiting factor for HPCs. Integrated Silicon Photonics (SiP) can help to avoid this scenario and continue the progression of computing power toward and beyond Exaflop scales. SiP links can reach very high bandwidth density and low power compared to electronic solutions. Moreover, unlike other optical technologies, this photonic platform can be incorporated on the same silicon die, i.e. very close to the computing resources. SiP links and networks, however, are not one-to-one replacements for electronic interconnects. As a result, the integration of silicon photonics into computing systems requires system-wide and application/algorithm redesign. This task calls for a set of modeling and simulation tools to realize the development and design exploration of SiP network architectures. In this seminar, we review our approach to fulfil these software requirements in enabling SiP-based interconnects.
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- Armand Vedadi
Contact
- Armand Vedadi