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How Do You Meet The Bandwidth Demands Of HPC And AI System Architectures?

October 24, 2022 David Gordon 0

Sponsored Post: Analyst firm Gartner believes AI will remain one of the top workloads driving infrastructure decisions through to 2023 as more organizations push pilot projects into the production stage. …

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Nvidia Shows What Optically Linked GPU Systems Might Look Like

August 17, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

We have been talking about silicon photonics so long that we are, probably like many of you, frustrated that it already is not ubiquitous. …

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Luminous Shines A Light On Optical Architecture For Future AI Supercomputer

March 17, 2022 Jeffrey Burt 1

It is not every day when we hear about a new supercomputer maker with a new architecture, but it is looking like Luminous Computing, a silicon photonics startup that has been pretty secretive about what it was up to, is going to be throwing its homegrown architecture into the ring. …

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How – And When – Optical I/O Will Make Disaggregated Systems Better

July 13, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

As many of you know from reading The Next Platform, we are firm believers that eventually we will get disaggregated and composable systems that drive up the sharing of hardware resource across many workloads and therefore drive down the cost of hardware to support workloads. …

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A Five-Year Challenge Roadmap for Photonics-Based Computing

January 13, 2021 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 1

Silicon photonics has been proving its worth in telco and communications but there is a much brighter opportunity photonics-based computing. …

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Crunching Photons And Electrons Down Into Datacenter Switch ASICs

March 17, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

At some point, Moore’s Law increases in performance are going to hit a wall when it comes to datacenter networks. …

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On-Chip Optical Links Are One Step Closer To Reality

September 11, 2019 Michael Feldman 1

Ayar Labs looks like it is just about ready to put its optical I/O chiplet technology into commercial datacenter products.  …

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The Silicon Photonics Key to Building Better Neural Networks

May 21, 2019 Michael Feldman 1

The commercial realization of artificial intelligence has companies scrambling to develop the next big hardware technology breakthrough for this multi-billion dollar market. …

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First Silicon for Photonics Startup with DARPA Roots

January 29, 2019 Michael Feldman 2

Ayar Labs, a silicon photonics startup based in Emeryville, California, is getting set to tape out its electro-optical I/O chip, which will become the basis of its first commercial product. …

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The Memory Scalability At The Heart Of The Machine

June 15, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

Much has been made of the ability of The Machine, the system with the novel silicon photonics interconnect and massively scalable shared memory pool being developed by Hewlett Packard Enterprise, to already address more main memory at once across many compute elements than many big iron NUMA servers. …

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