Optics for Disaggregating Data Centers and Disintegrating Computing - Optical Network Design and Modeling
Conference Papers Year : 2020

Optics for Disaggregating Data Centers and Disintegrating Computing

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We present a review of photonic Network-on-Chip (pNoC) architectures and experimental demonstrations, concluding to the main obstacles that still impede the materialization of these concepts. We also propose the employment of optics in chip-to-chip (C2C) computing architectures rather than on-chip layouts towards reaping their benefits while avoiding technology limitations on the way to many-core set-ups. We identify multisocket boards as the most prominent application area and present recent advances in optically enabled multisocket boards, revealing successful 40 Gb/s transceiver and routing capabilities via integrated photonics. These results indicate the potential to bring energy consumption down by more than 60% compared to current QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) protocol, while turning multisocket architectures into a single-hop low-latency setup for even more than 4 interconnected sockets, which form currently the electronic baseline.
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hal-03200687 , version 1 (16-04-2021)

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Nikos Terzenidis, Miltiadis Moralis-Pegios, Stelios Pitris, Charoula Mitsolidou, George Mourgias-Alexandris, et al.. Optics for Disaggregating Data Centers and Disintegrating Computing. 23th International IFIP Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM), May 2019, Athens, Greece. pp.274-285, ⟨10.1007/978-3-030-38085-4_24⟩. ⟨hal-03200687⟩
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