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May 17 (Thursday), 2018 (Green and Gold Room, Hilton Fort Collins)
| Time | Session |
| 07:4508:15 | Workshop Registration |
| 08:1508:25 | Introduction to SPHPC and Welcome NoteCo-Chairs:
Mahdi Nikdast, Colorado State University, USA Sudeep Pasricha, Colorado State University, USA Gabriela Nicolescu, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada Ashkan Seyedi, HPE Labs., USA |
| 08:2510:00 | Session I: Electronic-Photonic Design Automation (EPDA) and Exascale ComputingChair:
Sudeep Pasricha, Colorado State University, USA Co-Chair: Gabriela Nicolescu, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada |
| 08:25 | Keynote: Enabling a Scalable Photonic Design ModelKeynote Speaker:
John Ferguson, Mentor Graphics, a Siemens Business, USA |
| 09:10 | System and Application Considerations When Designing HPC Networks and Potential Photonic ImpactsSpeaker:
Ian Karlin, Lawrence Livermore National Lab., USA |
| 09:35 | The Need for Silicon Photonics in Exascale ComputingSpeaker:
Chris Wilson, HPE Labs., USA |
| 10:00 | Coffee Break |
| 10:2012:00 | Session II: Foundry Perspective and Monolithic Chair:
Ashkan Seyedi, HPE Labs., USA Co-Chair: Mahdi Nikdast, Colorado State University, USA |
| 10:20 | Is it Possible to Obtain High Bandwidth Density With Present Modulators in Mature 300 Silicon Photonics Platform?Speaker:
Jean-Francois Carpentier, STMicroelectronics, France |
| 10:45 | IceNet for FireBox: Integrated CMOS-Photonics for Rack-Scale SupercomputersSpeaker:
Vladimir Stojanović, UC Berkley, USA |
| 11:10 | Monolithic Silicon Photonic TransceiversSpeaker:
Chi Xiong, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA |
| 11:35 | Chip-Scale Optical Transceiver “Optical I/O Core” for Interconnections Among Boards and LSIs Based on Silicon Photonics TechnologySpeaker:
Takahiro Nakamura, PETRA, Japan |
| 12:00 | Lunch Break (Bawarchi Indian Restaurant) |
| 13:1514:55 | Session III: Requirements, Alternatives, and Electrical I/OChair:
Gabriela Nicolescu, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada C0-Chair: Ashkan Seyedi, HPE Labs., USA |
| 13:15 | High-Speed CMOS Optical Interconnect Transmitters Speaker:
Samuel Palermo, Texas A&M, USA |
| 13:40 | Network-on-Package for Low-Power High-Performance ComputingSpeaker:
Armin Tajalli, University of UTAH, USA |
| 14:05 | Photonics: Can’t Live with Them, Can’t Live Without Them! Speaker:
Nic McDonald, HPE Labs, USA |
| 14:30 | Feeling Congested: Challenges in HPC Interconnect ArchitectureSpeaker:
John Kim, KAIST, Korea |
| 14:55 | Coffee break |
| 15:1516:55 | Session IV: System-Level Architectures and PackagingChair:
Mahdi Nikdast, Colorado State University, USA Co-Chair: Sudeep Pasricha, Colorado State University, USA |
| 15:15 | Managing Workload Diversity on Exascale Systems Through Bandwidth SteeringSpeaker:
Jeremiah Wilke, Sandia Labs, USA |
| 15:40 | Design for Package, Design for TestSpeaker:
Thomas G. Brown, University of Rochester, USA |
| 16:05 | Silicon Photonics in High-Radix Low-Diameter NetworksSpeaker:
Ankit More, Intel, USA |
| 16:30 | Heterogeneous Silicon Photonics for High Performance Computing Speaker:
Tin Komljenovic and John Bowers, UCSB, USA |
| 16:5517:45 | Panel DiscussionThe impact of photonics to modern-day DC’s and HPC’s is well understood. Fast forward a few years: what previously intractable problems can we now focus on solving?
Moderator: Ashkan Seyedi, HPE Labs., USA Panelists: Ian Karlin, Lawrence Livermore National Lab., USA Di Liang, HPE Labs., USA Samuel Palermo, Texas A&M, USA Chi Xiong, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA Aaron Zilkie, Rockley Photonics, USA |
| 17:4518:00 | First Day Concluding Remarks and Closing SessionCo-Chairs:
Ashkan Seyedi, HPE Labs., USA Mahdi Nikdast, Colorado State University, USA Sudeep Pasricha, Colorado State University, USA Gabriela Nicolescu, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada |
| 18:30 | Networking Event (Dinner at Rio Grande Mexican Restaurant)Shuttle bus leaves at 18:15 from Hilton Fort Collins. |
May 18 (Thursday), 2018 (Green and Gold Room, Hilton Fort Collins)
| Time | Session |
| 07:4508:15 | Workshop Registration |
| 08:1510:20 | Session V: Low Power Devices and Contemporary Transceivers Chair:
Gabriela Nicolescu, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada Co-Chair: Mahdi Nikdast, Colorado State University, USA |
| 08:15 | Can Coherent Optics Invade the Datacenter, and Then HPC Systems?Speaker:
Clint Schow, UCSB, USA |
| 08:40 | Power Penalties of Silicon Photonic Modulators in PAM and QAM Transmission LinksSpeaker:
Wei Shi, University of Laval, Canada |
| 09:05 | Optical Computing on Silicon-on-Insulator Based Photonic Integrated CircuitsSpeaker:
David Z. Pan, UT Austin, USA |
| 09:30 | Multi-Tbps Scale InP-Based Systems-on-Chip Photonics for High Capacity Optical InterconnectsSpeaker:
Pavel Studenkov, Infinera, USA |
| 09:55 | In-Package Optics for the Future of Datacenter NetworkingSpeaker:
Aaron Zilkie, Rockley Photonics, USA |
| 10:20 | Coffee Break |
| 10:4012:45 | Session VI: Benefits, Challenges, and Design SolutionsChair:
Sudeep Pasricha, Colorado State University, USA Co-Chair: Ashkan Seyedi, HPE Labs., USA |
| 10:40 | Scalable and Modular High-Radix All-to-All InterconnectsSpeaker:
S. J. Ben Yoo, UC Davis, USA |
| 11:05 | Benefits and Challenges to Build Robust Heterogeneous Light Sources on SiliconSpeaker:
Di Liang, HPE Labs., USA |
| 11:30 | Automated Design of Photonic Devices Speaker:
Alexander Piggott and Jelena Vuckovic, Stanford University, USA |
| 11:55 | Silicon Photonic Modulation for High Performance Computing Speaker:
Alan Mickelson, CU Boulder, USA |
| 12:20 | VBTI Aging: Yet Another Critical Design Challenge for Microring Resonator Based Silicon Photonic InterconnectsSpeaker:
Ishan Thakkar and Sudeep Pasricha, Colorado State University, USA |
| 12:4513:00 | SPHPC Concluding Remarks and Closing SessionCo-Chairs:
Mahdi Nikdast, Colorado State University, USA Sudeep Pasricha, Colorado State University, USA Gabriela Nicolescu, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada Ashkan Seyedi, HPE Labs., USA |