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Introducing the World’s First Full-Photonic Network for AI
PRISM, (Photonic Routing Infrastructure for Scalable Models), is the world’s first full-photonic network designed to revolutionize AI data centers. By eliminating electrical packet switches (EPS) and all associated hardware from the network, PRISM resolves the bottlenecks limiting the growth of AI training and inference.
This innovative full-stack architecture integrates seamlessly into existing data centers, providing a scalable, energy-efficient solution for next-gen AI and HPC workloads. PRISM is the key to unleashing the full potential of any AI infrastructure, delivering higher performance at scale, lower power consumption with higher compute efficiency and less complexity, and more reliability.
Training and Inference at the Speed of Light
These are some of the features that make the Oriole Networks’ solution unique.
Handles Any Traffic
Combining nanosecond-level switching across time, wavelength, and space enables rapid circuit configuration. This allows quick bursts of optical data transfer, functioning efficiently for large and small data transfers.
True All-to-All Connectivity
Offers port-level all-to-all communication where any endpoint can reach any endpoint.
Lower Power and Temperature
With entirely passive interconnects and switches, the network core stays clean and efficient (it does not dissipate power or require cooling). Complexity is greatly reduced while all the control moves to the edge.
Resilient and Reliable by Design
No single point of failure. Each node has multiple paths to every other, so even if something breaks, communication continues, just at a slightly lower capacity.
Built to Scale
Handles systems with up to one million endpoints with a 1-hop diameter, enabling support for increasingly complex and distributed workloads.
Designed With AI Workloads in Mind
Purpose-built algorithms for collective communication strategies tailored for optical circuit switched networks, enabling schedule-less, contention-free data transfers. These operations are completed in just a few steps, even at maximum scale, dramatically reducing latency and keeping GPUs fed without stalling on communication.
Making Compute More Efficient and Profitable
PRISM is a full-stack, all-optical fabric purpose-built to connect GPUs at scale with speed and simplicity. While the architecture is a bold change in the way HPC/AI networks are currently run, the components are designed to fit right into modern data centers, offering high performance and reduced complexity.
Software Stack: Including xCCL plugins and PCIe drivers that integrate seamlessly with the PRISM network stack, substituting the default transport layer utilized by collective communication libraries
High Performance Network Interface Card (NIC): Provides 800 Gbps of bandwidth in a compact form factor, accommodating most standard servers
XTR – Integrated Photonic Switch and Transceiver: Handles wavelength and route selection on the fly, enabling connectivity to as many as one million nodes from a single interface.
Photonic Router: A passive, modular optical router that operates without power and accommodates top-of-rack and central deployments, providing dual-path resilience
Is Your Network Holding You Back?
Find out more about what makes PRISM such a unique solution and the benefits it offers in accelerating AI in a low-carbon world.