Workshop on Emerging Technologies for Interconnects

Cornell University, Ithaca NY

Investigators

Abstract

The shift to an ever-increasing number of processing cores--within a single socket in consumer devices and across multiple sockets in servers--has brought interconnects to the forefront of the challenges facing the computing industry. While evidence suggests that alternatives to conventional metal interconnects will be needed to meet future performance demands and power constraints, research in these areas has been largely limited in scope to specific areas of the computing stack, and little progress has been made across problem sub-domains. Thus, there is a dire need for holistic research efforts spanning the stack from physics to systems, and that produce prototypes and development tools that are of much greater sophistication than exist today in order to enable commercial adoption. The Workshop on Emerging Technologies for Interconnects will bring together key researchers, industry developers, and program managers in order to define an agenda for the research and commercial adoption of emerging interconnect technologies. Presentations and discussions on the "state of the state-of-the-art" of emerging technologies for interconnects will be followed by break-out sessions and discussions. These sessions will identify and articulate the key research challenges, and potentially most promising solutions/directions, and chart the recommended larger-scale national strategy and research agenda. The broader impact will be the elimination of the key