POSTER:computer news || A PROTOTYPE OF ANOTHER SUPERCOMPUTER ON THE TABLE
DATE:2014-08-09
Young British company Optalysys, formed in 2013, originally from Cambridge University, offers an entirely new principle in the organization of supercomputing. According to the leaders Optalysys, their method will create supercomputers the size of the office PC, which will lead to revolutionary changes in all industries and even in ordinary life of ordinary citizens.
The first working prototype of the optical computer will be unveiled in January 2015 at an event NASA Technology Readiness Level 4. basic conceptual processor performance will be about 340 gigaflops. This is not a revolution. The company Fujitsu, for example, told about the processor SPARC64 XIfx performance 1 teraflops, which is three times faster.
The principle of operation is based on the processor Optalysys massive parallelization of light flux, the intensity of each of which carries information load. Micromirror system splits the laser beam of low intensity on hundreds or even thousands of concurrent threads, which are sent to the managed grid of liquid crystals. In fact - on the microdisplay LCD. Thus each ray goes through its own individual pixel microdisplay. By controlling the transparency pixel, you can change the intensity of the beam passing through it and continue to use this value for the organization of mathematical functions. In other words, the crucial components will be based not on the usual digital signals and the optical Fourier's law, diffraction, interference, and so on.
Due to massive parallelism and other principles of operation, the company intends to make Optalysys systems operating on the principles of CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics). This will speed up the processing of big data and solve the traditional problems - weather forecasting, analysis of media and more. It is important that the consumption of such systems is very low. Thus, the optical performance of a supercomputer in one ekzaflops per year will consume energy in an amount not more than $ 3,000. For comparison, the fastest computer today Tianhe-2 with a capacity of 33.86 petaflops worth of electricity to maintain $ 21 million. Annually.
Today Optalysys developing two products: an analytical system for processing Big Data and Optical Supercomputer (Optical Solver Supercomputer). Both products, as promised, will be released in 2017. Analysis unit will serve as a booster for legacy systems. The initial performance of the unit, analysts will be 1.32 petaflops. Until 2020, the computing speed unit will be increased to 300 petaflops. Solver - Optical Solver Supercomputer - will come with 9 petaflops performance and increase productivity in 2020 to 17.1 ekzaflops.
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