In this video from the Disruptive Technologies Session at the 2015 HPC User Forum, Nick New from Optalysis describes the company's optical processing technology. "Optalysys technology uses light, rather than electricity, to perform processor intensive mathematical functions (such as Fourier Transforms) in parallel at incredibly high-speeds and resolutions. It has the potential to provide multi-exascale levels of processing, powered from a standard mains supply. The mission is to deliver a solution that requires several orders of magnitude less power than traditional High Performance Computing (HPC) architectures." Watch the video presentation: http://wp.me/p3RLHQ-ewz

1. IDC HPC User Forum
Denver, USA
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8-10 September 2015

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Optalysys Optical Processing Technology
Turbo Charges Existing Desktop and HPC Systems
• Means to calculate Fourier Transform and Linear Algebra Operations Optically
• Massively Parallel Calculations performed at the Speed of Light
• OFT Analogous to 2D FFT, but resolution may be scaled without affecting process time
• High Resolution, fast (eg 4Kx2K, resolution, >2kHz) Liquid Crystal Microdisplays
(SLMs) enter Numerical Data and Focus the light Around the System
• Addresses fundamental limitations of high-end electronic processing:
• Power Consumption
• Speed
• Resolution
• Data Management
• Disruptive Pricing
• 2 Main Application Areas:
• Big Data Volume analysis (correlation)
• Model generation (partial derivatives)
• Complimentary, Modular, Rugged, Reconfigurable, Scalable
• Based upon well established principles
• Standalone/Integrated Co-Processor: First Product end 2017

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GENESYS Project: Bioinformatics
• Will perform alignment searches to identify patterns in nucleotide
and protein sequences
- “Out of the box” searches including BLAST, BWA,
Exonerate, Bowtie, Clustal, Muscle and others
- Open interface for third party applications
- Exact and similarity searches
- One to One, One to Many, Many to One and Many to Many
• 95% energy savings and 20x faster processing than a single
32 core HPC node.
• 2 year collaboration ending 31st May 2017
• £800,000 UK Government funded project
Main Areas of Development
ESCAPE Project:
Energy-efficient Scalable Algorithms for
Weather Prediction at Exascale
• To create next-generation weather forecasting on exascale
computers
• Design for an exascale solution
• A proof of concept optical co-processor to a Nvidea GPU
working within a CRAY system
• Major European consortium led by ECMWF
• 3 year project starting Oct 2015 involving our CFD expert
and dedicated pHd student
• €4m grant from European Commission’s Horizon 2020
programme
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ECMWF is hugely supportive of this proposal. It is clearly an exciting
novel technology path to more scalability
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Optalysys are the only company with the proven technology and expertise
to realise our vision and we are excited to be in partnership with them

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Roadmap
Today
• TRL4 Prototype
• Scaleable, lensless design without alignment issues
2 years
• GENESYSTM product launches for
bioinformatics market
• Scaled up in pixel count & frame rate
2022
• 50k resolution device is capable of boosting
performance to multi-exaFLOP speeds.
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PetaFLOPS(1015FLOPS)
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GENESYSTM 1.0
Prototype
Obama’s
supercomputer
Optalysys
target speeds