Enabling energy efficient exascale computing applications with optical interconnects

Abstract

The past few years has seen a sea change in computer architecture that will impact every facet of our society as every electronic device from cell phone to supercomputer will need to confront parallelism of unprecedented scale. Enabling future advances in sustained computational performance will require fundamental advances in computer architecture and programming models that are nothing short of reinventing computing. Photonic interconnect technologies will play an essential role to enable future progress in exascale computing.