Summary: Designing Multi-socket Systems Using Silicon Photonics
Scott Beamer, Krste Asanovi´c
Department of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley, California
{sbeamer, krste}@eecs.berkeley.edu
Christopher Batten, Ajay Joshi,
Vladimir Stojanovi´c
Department of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge, Massachusetts
{cbatten, joshi, vlada}@mit.edu
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 per-
formance 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

Source: Asanovic, Krste - Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory & Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Collections: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences