PINE: Photonic Integrated Networked Energy efficient datacenters (ENLITENED Program)

Madeleine Glick, Nathan Abrams, Qixiang Cheng, Min Yee Teh, Yu-Han Hung, Oscar Jimenez, Songtao Liu, Yoshitomo Okawachi, Michal Lipson, Alexander Gaeta, Keren Bergman, Leif Johansson (+7 others)
2020 Journal of Optical Communications and Networking  
We review the motivation, goals, and achievements of the Photonic Integrated Networked Energy efficient datacenter (PINE) project, which is part of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) ENergyefficient Light-wave Integrated Technology Enabling Networks that Enhance Dataprocessing (ENLITENED) program. The PINE program leverages the unique features of photonic technologies to enable alternative megadatacenters and high-performance computing (HPC) system architectures that deliver
more » ... ore substantial energy efficiency improvements than can be achieved through link energy efficiency alone. In phase 1 of the program, the PINE system architecture demonstrated an average factor of 2.2× improvement in transactions/joule across a diverse set of HPC and datacenter applications. In phase 2, PINE will demonstrate an aggressive 1.0 pJ/bit total link budget with high-bandwidth-density dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM) links to enable additional 2.5× or more efficiency gains through deep resource disaggregation.
doi:10.1364/jocn.402788 fatcat:evcrlkdyjfeunoy6fhh7aagjdy