The Connect Centre is pleased to invite you to a talk by Professor Keren Bergman from Columbia University on Friday 18th October, from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM at Trinity College Dublin titled ‘Petascale photonic connectivity for energy efficient computing’.
This talk will delve into the future of energy-efficient computing through Petascale photonic connectivity.Professor Bergman, a renowned expert in the field, will explore how integrated silicon photonics can revolutionize data centres by boosting communication bandwidth and slashing power consumption. Learn about cutting-edge approaches that push the limits of AI and ML applications, featuring photonic IO solutions with groundbreaking sub-picojoule/bit energy efficiency and Petabit/s bandwidths.
Don’t miss this opportunity to engage with a leading voice in photonic computing. Register now to secure your spot for this in-person or virtual event.
- Talk Duration: 30-45 minutes
About Professor Bergman
Keren Bergman is the Charles Batchelor Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University where she also serves as the Faculty Director of the Columbia Nano Initiative. Bergman received the B.S. from Bucknell University in 1988, and the M.S. in 1991 and Ph.D. in 1994 from M.I.T. all in Electrical Engineering. At Columbia, Bergman leads the Lightwave Research Laboratory encompassing multiple cross-disciplinary programs at the intersection of computing and photonics. Since 2023 Bergman is the Director of the Center for Ubiquitous Connectivity (CUbiC), a 5-year multi-university center funded by DARPA and the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) under the Joint University Microelectronics Program 2.0 (JUMP 2.0). Bergman serves on the Leadership Council of the American Institute of Manufacturing (AIM) Photonics leading projects that support the institute’s silicon photonics manufacturing capabilities and Datacom applications. She is the recipient of the IEEE Photonics Engineering Award and is a Fellow of Optica and IEEE.Find out more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keren_Bergman
Lecture details: Petascale photonic connectivity for energy efficient computing.High-performance data centers are increasingly bottlenecked by the energy and communications costs of interconnecting numerous compute and memory resources. Current systems face a gap of nearly two orders of magnitude between on-chip, intra-socket, communication capacities, and the capacities of links transporting data over longer distances. The per bit energy cost of data movement dominates that of data processing, as does density, throughput, and latency. Integrated silicon photonics offer the opportunity of optical connectivity that delivers high off-chip communication bandwidth densities with low power consumption. To realize these benefits deeply embedded packaging of photonics with the compute and memory is critical. This talk will cover approaches for leveraging photonic IO that can scale to realize Petabit/s chip escape bandwidths with sub-picojoule/bit energy consumption, as well as new architectural approaches that enable flexible connectivity tailored to accelerate distributed AI/ML applications.
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