News EU Announces World's First Integration of a Photonic Co-Processor in HPC

[Admin]

LightOn has announced that its "Appliance" Optical Processing Unit (OPU) has been selected for deployment in France's Jean Zay supercomputer. This marks the first time a photonics coprocessor is integrated with the HPC market.

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[Endymio]

Another article: another round of errors. The only "world first" here is the release of this particular company's photonics processor -- several other startups have near-identical offerings. The integration also apparently won't be live for a few more months. Finally, the "EU" made no announcement, nor does it seem they would, as Jean Zay is I believe a French-owned platform, not a collaborative venture.

 

[wildllama]

Well actually this photonic co-processor was physically installed into JeanZay on Nov 17th, and is now live. While it's true that several startups have competing technologies, none of them have reached this stage yet.