High Performance Computing

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) have driven bandwidth requirements within datacenters, they are also changing the way computers are built. Photonics is now being used for ‘chip to chip’ connections between processors and memory complexes. This is across ever shorter distances as the limitations of copper interconnects are being reached, either through interposers or very short fiber spans. Even within chips, novel architectures based on all-optical or quantum compute architectures are being developed and are starting to emerge from the research lab and into the datacenter.

OpenLight’s photonic technology brings many advantages to HPC, including integration of all the optical elements within a single Photonic Integrated Circuit, based on the same silicon technology that the rest of the solution is built on. This greatly reduces the size and power consumption for these technologies and allows integration at the chip level. Heterogeneously integrated materials can also offer significantly improved quantum efficiency for key devices, compared to doped silicon devices, whilst retaining the benefits of silicon.

OpenLight’s technology improves the performance, scalability and ease of manufacture of all these CPO elements, helping optical and electronic components seamlessly integrate for high-speed, energy-efficient, data processing and transmission.