Next Generation Computing Systems and Data Centers

• May 29, 2007: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
• Location: -5132 , Lawrence Berkeley National Labs

CITRIS@Davis director Ben Yoo will give a talk on May 29 at LBNL on: Next Generation Computing Systems and Data Centers: Energy Efficient Large-Scale Computing with Nanophotonic Interconnects.

 

Seminar talk at: 1:00 pm, Tuesday May 29, Room 50A-5132 , Lawrence Berkeley National Labs

 

Abstract:

Today’s computing has been a great success. By some estimates, the amount of data being processed is doubling approximately every 12 months. At this accelerating pace, our data centers must handle ~1000 times more data in 10 years. However, today’s data centers consume megawatts of power and require massive power distribution and cooling infrastructures. This talk will address a clean-slate approach to realizing next generation computing and data centers by exploiting co-designed nanophotonics and nanoelectronics. By introducing massively parallel optically interconnected multi processors, and by exploiting innovative hardware and software solutions, we will pursue orders of magnitude improvements in performance-per-Watt in the next generation computing and data centers. The proposed ‘Center’ project involves a multi-disciplinary team effort of the following five thrusts: Thrust 1: Next Generation Data-Center Architecture; Thrust 2: Data Center Resource Management and Virtualization; Thrust 3: Co-Designed nanophotonics and nanoelectronics Technologies; Thrust 4: System-on-Chip integration; Thrust 5: Testbed and Application Studies, and Project Evaluation. I will overview the Center project, discuss potential partnerships, and introduce our 10 year project plans involving 20 faculty and 40 students towards achieving the required improvement in the power efficiency in support of next generation data centers handling x1000 data in 10 years.

 

Biography:

S. J. Ben Yoo is UC Davis branch CITRIS (Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society) and Professor of Electrical Engineering at University of California at Davis (UC Davis). His research at UC Davis includes high-performance optical switching systems, nano photonic-electronic systems integration for next generation networking and computing systems. His recent demonstrations included optical label switching routers scalable to 42 Petabit/sec aggregate capacity with 1000 times improvement in performance/power efficiency. Prior to joining UC Davis in 1999, he was a Senior Research Scientist at Bellcore, leading technical efforts in optical networking research and systems integration. His research activities at Bellcore included optical-label switching for the next-generation Internet, reconfigurable optical networks, wavelength interchanging cross connects, wavelength converters, vertical-cavity lasers, and high-speed modulators. He also participated in the advanced technology demonstration network/multiwavelength optical networking (ATD/MONET) systems integration, and a number of standardization activities. Prior to joining Bellcore in 1991, he conducted research on nonlinear optical processes in quantum wells, a four-wave-mixing study of relaxation mechanisms in dye molecules, and ultrafast diffusion-driven photodetectors at StanfordUniversity (BS’84, MS’86, PhD’91, Stanford University). Prof. Yoo serves as serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Photonic Technology Letters, Guest Editors for IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, IEEE Journal of Special Topics in Quantum Electronics. Prof. Yoo is Fellow of IEEE and OSA, and a recipient of the DARPA Award for Sustained Excellence in 1997, the Bellcore CEO Award in 1998, and the Mid-Career Research Faculty Award (UC Davis) in 2004.