Planning Grant: I/UCRC for Optical Wireless Applications

佐治亚理工学院寻求与宾夕法尼亚州立大学（PSU）一起建立光学无线应用中心。PSU（牵头机构）已获得规划资助，并成功完成了规划资助工作坊。该提案旨在为ExaScale计算和TeraScale信息学的硬件技术做出创新贡献，并推进处理器和存储芯片之间的高带宽无线数据传输以及光纤无线通信的最新技术。拟议的工作分为两个重点。第一部分论述了包括长距离光通信、区域光纤无线电（RoF）和无线终端用户在内的TeraScale信息高速公路技术。第二种方案提出了一种在计算机节点内的芯片多处理器（CMP）和DRAM主存储器之间进行数据交换的全新方法，即一种低功耗毫米波无线数据总线，它绕过了对传统电子背板的需求。该项目的多学科性质旨在利用多样化的教育和研究方法，培养学生的个人主动性，他们将积极与工业界和大学互动，以实现高学历和熟练的劳动力，能够在全球竞争中竞争，实现ExaScale计算机器和TeraScale信息基础设施。预计此次研究结果将对企业竞争力、能源安全、环境保护、气候预测等方面做出贡献。

Planning Grant for an I/UCRC for Optical Wireless Applications Proposal #1134830 Georgia Tech Georgia Tech seeks to join Pennsylvania State University (PSU) to establish the center for Optical Wireless Applications. PSU (lead institution) has already been awarded the planning grant, and has successfully completed the planning grant workshop. This proposal seeks to make innovative contributions to the hardware technology of ExaScale computing and TeraScale informatics, and advance the state of the art in high bandwidth wireless data transmission between processor and memory dies and in wireless communication over optical fibers. The proposed work is divided into two thrusts. The first deals with the technology of TeraScale information highway which includes long distance optical communication, regional radio over fiber (RoF) and wireless end user. The second proposes a completely new approach to data exchange between a chip multiprocessor (CMP) and (DRAM) main memory within a computer node, namely a low power millimeter wave wireless data bus that bypasses the need for the traditional electrical back-plane. The multi-disciplined nature of the project is aimed to harness a diverse educational and research approach that nurtures individual initiative in students who will actively interacts with industry and universities, to achieve a highly educated and skilled work-force that is able to compete in the global race to achieve ExaScale computing machines and a TeraScale information infrastructure. The result of this research is expected to contribute to business competitiveness, energy security, environmental protection, and climate forecast.