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Home > Hardware > Photonics has made its way into supercomputers

Photonics has made its way into supercomputers

France’s Jean Zay supercomputer is now using a phonic chip as a coprocessor, being the first in the industry.


Rusen Gobel Rusen Gobel
December 28, 2021
1 min read
Photonics has made its way into supercomputers

The electronics in the computing area are reaching their limits. The physical barriers of silicon-based electronics constrain the improvements. The computing world needs a breakthrough in which photonics might be the solution. Several companies, including Intel, are researching the new technology.

First in supercomputers

The supercomputer named Jean Zay, located in France, has become the first supercomputer that contains a photonic coprocessor. The optical processing unit (OPU) company LightOn, developed a unit in U2 form factor, using their Aurora 2 OPUs. The U2 form factor enabled easy integration with the supercomputer, Jean Zay.

Photonics will break the physical barriers of moving electrons on copper and gold wires

The Jean Zay supercomputer, which specializes in AI research, has become one of the top 500 supercomputers globally. The LightOn appliance works in tandem with standard silicon CPU and Nvidia AI GPUs and uses photonics to speed up randomized algorithms at a very large scale. LightOn states that photonics will reduce overall computing time and power consumption.

The program has been possible with the contributions of GENCI and IDRIS. The program has a limited time under a pilot program for a few months. In this time scope, machine learning foundations, differential privacy, satellite imaging analysis, and natural language processing task will be done on Jean Lay supercomputer with LightOn photonics enhancements.

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Rusen Gobel

Rusen Gobel

Rusen Gobel is a news editor at Cloud7 News. With more than 10 years of experience, Rusen worked as a hardware and software news editor for technology sites such as Shiftdelete, Teknokolis, Hardware Plus, BT Haber. In addition, Rusen publishes consumer product reviews on his YouTube channel. While consumer electronics has been his main focus for years, now Rusen is more interested in WordPress and software development. He had contributed different web application projects in his professional career. Rusen had graduated from Istanbul University, department of Computer Engineering. Rusen has a very high passion for learning and writing for every kind of technology. That's why he has been working as a tech editor for more than ten years on several different technology magazines and online news portals.

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