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- Forsberg, Håkan, et al.
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Key Issues in Implementing an Optoelectronic Planar Free-space Architecture for Signal Processing Applications
- 2003
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In: IASTED International Multi-Conference on Applied Informatics. - : IASTED/ACTA Press. - 0889863415 ; , s. 621-629
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Conference paper (pop. science, debate, etc.)abstract
- In this paper, we deal with the key issues in implementing an optoelectronic architecture suitable for embedded signal processing. The architecture is based on a system concept where free-space optical interconnects and planar packaging technologies make it possible to merge complicated and new parallel computer architectures into planes and to take advantage of many properties of optics. For instance, optical fan-out reduces the hardware cost as well as the all-to-all broadcast time. It is also possible to meet scalability and high bisection bandwidth requirements. The main results show that it is possible to build a 6D hypercube using planar optical substrates.
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- Delcloo, Andy, et al.
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ACCEPTED : An Assessment of Changing Conditions, Environmental Policies, Time-Activities, Exposure and Disease
- 2014
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In: Air Pollution Modeling and its Application XXIII. - Cham : SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN. ; , s. 55-59
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Changes in urban design and traffic policy, demography, climate and associated adaptation, mitigation measures and environmental policies are likely to modify both outdoor and indoor air quality and therefore public health. The project aims to improve our understanding of future exposure situations and their impact on health, from an interdisciplinary approach. This will be achieved by using various state-of-the-art atmospheric models, measurements, epidemiological studies and reviews. To assess population full exposure, an integrated view accounting both for indoor and outdoor air pollution as well as for population time activity data will be developed. New dose-response functions will be estimated between health outcome, air pollution and temperature in order to better estimate the effects on the foetus and young children. Ultimately, scenarios of future urban climate and air quality will be simulated, combining future exposure scenarios, population scenarios and exposure-response functions to describe the effects of different trends and relevant policies on relative risk and burden of illness attributed to urban pollutants and their interactions with extreme temperatures. Also the mitigation strategies that can be used to reduce urbanization and climate change effects on the local urban meteorology and air quality will be assessed. With applications in several large European cities, the project will study the impact of several alternative adaptation scenarios on urban air quality and human health to a mid-century horizon (2030-2060) accounting for the effects of a changing urban climate. Scenario-based health impact assessments will combine exposure information from climate models, emission scenarios, policy evaluation studies and concentration calculations with exposure-response functions from epidemiological studies of vulnerable groups within the project and previously published functions for mortality and hospital admissions. The effects of socioeconomic and demographic trends will be discussed, the predicted health impacts and benefits associated with different interventions and policies and other urban changes will be described.
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- Forsberg, Håkan, et al.
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A scalable and pipelined embedded signal processing system using optical hypercube interconnects
- 2000
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In: Proceedings of the 12th IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS 2000), Las Vegas, NV, USA, Nov. 6-9, 2000. - Las Vegas : IASTED. ; , s. 265-272
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In this paper, we propose a system suitable for embedded signal processing with extreme performance demands. The system consists of several computational modules that work independently and send data simultaneously in order to achieve high throughput. Each computational module is composed of multiple processors connected in a hypercube topology to meet scalability and high bisection bandwidth requirements. Free-space optical interconnects and planar packaging technology make it possible to transform the hypercubes into planes and to take advantage of many optical properties. For instance, optical fan-out reduces hardware cost. This, altogether, makes the system capable of meeting high performance demands in, e.g., massively parallel signal processing. An example system with eleven computational modules and an overall peak performance greater than 2.8 TFLOPS is presented. The effective inter-module bandwidth in this configuration is 1,024 Gbit/s.
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- Forsberg, Håkan, 1969-, et al.
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Opportunities for Optical Planar Interconnection Technology in Terabit Switches
- 2003
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In: Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Wireless and Optical Communications, July 2-4, 2003, Banff, Canada. - Anaheim; Calgary : ACTA Press. - 0889863741 - 9780889863743 ; , s. 155-164
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- To keep up with the explosive growth of world-wide network traffic, large-capacity switches, with switching capacities in excess of several terabits per second, are becoming an essential part of the future. To realize such switches, new architecture concepts must be considered. In this paper, we discuss a technology for terabit switches that combines the advantage of using optical communication in all three spatial dimensions and the benefits of using surface mounted optoelectronic as well as electronic chips. We present three different types of packet-based switch fabrics, all based on the optical planar interconnection technology. We then discuss these in terms of capacity, scalability, and physical size. All three implementations have a single switch plane cross sectional bandwidth exceeding 5 Tbps.
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- Forsberg, Håkan, et al.
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Radar signal processing using pipelined optical hypercube interconnects
- 2001
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In: Proceedings of the 15th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium. - Los Alamitos, California : IEEE Computer Society Press. - 0769509908 ; , s. 2043-2052
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In this paper, we consider the mapping of two radar algorithms on a new scalable hardware architecture. The architecture consists of several computational modules that work independently and send data simultaneously in order to achieve high throughput. Each computational module is composed of multiple processors connected in a hypercube topology to meet scalability and high bisection bandwidth requirements. Free-space optical interconnects and planar packaging technology make it possible to transform the hypercubes into planes. Optical fan-out reduces the number of optical transmitters and thus the hardware cost. Two example systems are analyzed and mapped onto the architecture. One 64-channel airborne radar system with a sustained computational load of more than 1.6 TFLOPS, and one ground-based 128-channel radar system with extreme inter-processor communication demands.
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