Oriole’s fast optical reconfigurable network

• Start-up Oriole Networks has developed a photonic network to link numerous accelerator chips in an artificial intelligence (AI) data centre.

• The fast photonic network is reconfigurable every 100 nanoseconds and is designed to replace tiers of electrical switches.

• Oriole says its photonic networking saves considerable power and ensures the network is no longer a compute bottleneck.

Georgios Zervas, CTO of Oriole Networks.

In a London office bathed in spring sunlight, the team from Oriole Networks, a University College London (UCL) spin-out, detailed its vision for transforming AI and high-performance computing (HPC) data centres.

Oriole has developed a networking solution, dubbed Prism, that uses fast reconfigurable optical circuit switches to replace the tiers of electrical packet switches used to connect racks of AI processors in the data centre.

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