PICA – Workshop on Photonic Interconnects & Computer Architecture

Sunday, December 13, 2009

http://www.ece.ucdavis.edu/pica

Contact: pica.workshop@gmail.com

 

Held in Conjunction with 42nd Annual ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Microarchitecture, MICRO-42

 

 

Technical Program

 

 

8:30 AM – 9:30 AM

 

Introduction to Photonics Interconnects for a Computer Architect – A Tutorial

Keren Bergman (Columbia) and Venkatesh Akella (UC Davis)

 

 

9:30 AM – 10:00 AM

 

Nanophotonic Barriers

Nathan Binkert (HP), Al Davis (Utah),  Mikko Lipasti  (Wisconsin),  Robert Schreiber (HP) and Dana Vantrease (Wisconsin)

 

10:00 AM – 10:30 AM

Coffee Break

 

10:30 AM – 11:00 AM

 

Tuning Nanophotonic On-Chip Networks Designs for Improving Memory Traffic

Yan Pan (Northwestern), John Kim (KAIST) and Gokhan Memik (Northwestern)

 

 

11:00 AM – 11:30 AM

 

Limits and Opportunities for Designing Manycore Processor-to-Memory Networks using Monolithic Silicon Photonics

Ajay Joshi (Boston University), Christopher Batten (MIT), Yong-Jin Kwon (UC Berkeley), Scott Beamer (UC Berkeley), Imran Shamim (MIT), Krste Asanovic (UC Berkeley) and Vladimir Stojanovic (MIT)

 

 

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM

 

Panel Discussion – Opportunities and Challenges with Photonics Interconnects in Computer Architecture

 

Panelists:

Krste Asanovic – University of California, Berkeley

Moray McLaren – Hewlett-Packard

Michal Lipson – Cornell University

Herb Schwetman – Sun Microsystems

 

Moderator: Nathan Binkert (HP)

 

 

 

Program Committee

 

Jung Ho Ahn (Seoul National University)

Venkatesh Akella (University of California, Davis)

Keren Bergman (Columbia)

Nathan Binkert (Hewlett-Packard Labs)

Luca Carloni (Columbia)