HPE and Ayar Labs Partner to Bring Optical I/O to Slingshot Fabric for HPC and AI
by Doug Black from High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC on (#5WFCX)
HPC systems leader Hewlett Packard Enterprise and startup Ayar Labs, maker of chip-to-chip optical I/O connectivity, today announced a strategic collaboration to integrate silicon photonics within HPE's high performance Slingshot fabric. Longer term, HPE envisions future generations of HPC systems interconnects significantly enhanced by optical I/O, which is a silicon photonics-based technology that uses light instead of electricity to transmit data. The technology addresses both the need for higher data rates and improved energy efficiency (see "Composable HPC-AI at Scale: The Emergence of Optical I/O Chiplets").
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