Program at a Glance (Download)
May 17 (Thursday), 2018 (Green and Gold Room, Hilton Fort Collins)
| Time | Session |
| 07:45
08:15 |
Workshop Registration |
| 08:15
08:25 |
Introduction to SPHPC and Welcome Note
Co-Chairs: Mahdi Nikdast, Colorado State University, USA Sudeep Pasricha, Colorado State University, USA Gabriela Nicolescu, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada Ashkan Seyedi, HPE Labs., USA |
| 08:25
10:00 |
Session I: Electronic-Photonic Design Automation (EPDA) and Exascale Computing
Chair: Sudeep Pasricha, Colorado State University, USA Co-Chair: Gabriela Nicolescu, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada |
| 08:25
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Keynote: Enabling a Scalable Photonic Design Model
Keynote Speaker: John Ferguson, Mentor Graphics, a Siemens Business, USA |
| 09:10 | System and Application Considerations When Designing HPC Networks and Potential Photonic Impacts
Speaker: Ian Karlin, Lawrence Livermore National Lab., USA |
| 09:35 | The Need for Silicon Photonics in Exascale Computing
Speaker: Chris Wilson, HPE Labs., USA |
| 10:00 | Coffee Break |
| 10:20
12:00 |
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 Supercomputers
Speaker: Vladimir Stojanović, UC Berkley, USA |
| 11:10 | Monolithic Silicon Photonic Transceivers
Speaker: 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 Technology
Speaker: Takahiro Nakamura, PETRA, Japan |
| 12:00 | Lunch Break (Bawarchi Indian Restaurant) |
| 13:15
14:55 |
Session III: Requirements, Alternatives, and Electrical I/O
Chair: 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 Computing
Speaker: 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 Architecture
Speaker: John Kim, KAIST, Korea |
| 14:55 | Coffee break |
| 15:15
16:55 |
Session IV: System-Level Architectures and Packaging
Chair: Mahdi Nikdast, Colorado State University, USA Co-Chair: Sudeep Pasricha, Colorado State University, USA |
| 15:15 | Managing Workload Diversity on Exascale Systems Through Bandwidth Steering
Speaker: Jeremiah Wilke, Sandia Labs, USA |
| 15:40 | Design for Package, Design for Test
Speaker: Thomas G. Brown, University of Rochester, USA |
| 16:05 | Silicon Photonics in High-Radix Low-Diameter Networks
Speaker: Ankit More, Intel, USA |
| 16:30 | Heterogeneous Silicon Photonics for High Performance Computing
Speaker: Tin Komljenovic and John Bowers, UCSB, USA |
| 16:55
17:45 |
Panel Discussion
The 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 |
| 17:45
18:00 |
First Day Concluding Remarks and Closing Session
Co-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 |
| 07:45
08:15 |
Workshop Registration |
| 08:15
10:20 |
Session V: Low Power Devices and Contemporary Transceivers
Chair: Gabriela Nicolescu, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada Co-Chair: Mahdi Nikdast, Colorado State University, USA |
| 08:15
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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 Links
Speaker: Wei Shi, University of Laval, Canada |
| 09:05 | Optical Computing on Silicon-on-Insulator Based Photonic Integrated Circuits
Speaker: David Z. Pan, UT Austin, USA |
| 09:30 | Multi-Tbps Scale InP-Based Systems-on-Chip Photonics for High Capacity Optical Interconnects
Speaker: Pavel Studenkov, Infinera, USA |
| 09:55 | In-Package Optics for the Future of Datacenter Networking
Speaker: Aaron Zilkie, Rockley Photonics, USA |
| 10:20 | Coffee Break |
| 10:40
12:45 |
Session VI: Benefits, Challenges, and Design Solutions
Chair: Sudeep Pasricha, Colorado State University, USA Co-Chair: Ashkan Seyedi, HPE Labs., USA |
| 10:40 | Scalable and Modular High-Radix All-to-All Interconnects
Speaker: S. J. Ben Yoo, UC Davis, USA |
| 11:05 | Benefits and Challenges to Build Robust Heterogeneous Light Sources on Silicon
Speaker: 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 Interconnects
Speaker: Ishan Thakkar and Sudeep Pasricha, Colorado State University, USA |
| 12:45
13:00 |
SPHPC Concluding Remarks and Closing Session
Co-Chairs: Mahdi Nikdast, Colorado State University, USA Sudeep Pasricha, Colorado State University, USA Gabriela Nicolescu, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada Ashkan Seyedi, HPE Labs., USA |