Tpu v4: An optically reconfigurable supercomputer for machine learning with hardware support for embeddings

N Jouppi, G Kurian, S Li, P Ma, R Nagarajan… - Proceedings of the 50th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
In response to innovations in machine learning (ML) models, production workloads changed
radically and rapidly. TPU v4 is the fifth Google domain specific architecture (DSA) and its …

Optical switching in future fiber-optic networks utilizing spectral and spatial degrees of freedom

DM Marom, Y Miyamoto, DT Neilson… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Forthcoming capacity scaling requirements of optical networks and advances in optical fiber
communications beyond the omnipresent single-mode fiber operating over the conventional …

Lightwave fabrics: at-scale optical circuit switching for datacenter and machine learning systems

H Liu, R Urata, K Yasumura, X Zhou… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
We describe our experience developing what we believe to be the world's first large-scale
production deployments of lightwave fabrics used for both datacenter networking and …

An 8 × 160 Gb s−1 all-silicon avalanche photodiode chip

Y Peng, Y Yuan, WV Sorin, S Cheung, Z Huang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
In response to growing demands on data traffic, silicon (Si) photonics has emerged as a
promising technology for ultra-high-speed and low-cost optical interconnects. However …

Realizing RotorNet: Toward Practical Microsecond Scale Optical Networking

WM Mellette, A Forencich, R Athapathu… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
We describe our experience building and deploying a demand-oblivious optically-switched
network based on the RotorNet and Opera architectures. We detail the design, manufacture …

Optical switching will innovate intra data center networks [Invited Tutorial]

K Sato - Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reflecting the recent slow-down in Moore's law and the proliferation of artificial
intelligence/machine learning workloads, the performance and energy consumption of …

Towards the information-theoretic limit of programmable photonics

R Hamerly, JR Basani, A Sludds, SK Vadlamani… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The scalability of many programmable photonic circuits is limited by the $2\pi $ tuning range
needed for the constituent phase shifters. To address this problem, we introduce the concept …

Optical Data Center Networking: A Comprehensive Review on Traffic, Switching, Bandwidth Allocation, and Challenges

PA Baziana - IEEE Access, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The accelerated growth of data traffic in data centers (DCs) globally is driven by the
dominance of multiple emerging data-intensive applications hosted by edge/cloud DCs …

DeepFlow: A cross-stack pathfinding framework for distributed ai systems

N Ardalani, S Pal, P Gupta - ACM Transactions on Design Automation of …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Over the past decade, machine learning model complexity has grown at an extraordinary
rate, as has the scale of the systems training such large models. However, there is an …

Optical Circuit Switching Using REC-DFB Laser Array

L Wang, M Zheng, J Nie, Q Sun, Z Yin… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
The ongoing growth of data traffic from existing and new latency-sensitive applications
poses a challenge to the data center network. Wavelength-routed optical circuit switching …