Accelerating Parallel Sort on Tightly-Coupled FPGAs enabled by Onboard Si-Photonics Transceivers
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Mizutani, Kenji; Yamaguchi, Hiroshi; Urino, Yutaka; Koibuchi, Michihiro
- Source
- 2021 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC) Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2021. :1-3 Jun, 2021
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Photonics and Electrooptics
Optical fibers
Optical fiber networks
Transceivers
Servers
Field programmable gate arrays
- Language
We illustrate a case for a tightly-coupled lightweight fully-connected inter-FPGA optical network with Si-photonics transceivers. Counting sort of in-memory column-oriented data using eight custom FPGA cards can be 5.3 times faster than that with eight CPU-servers.