Our Approach

Mission Statement: Organizing the World’s Data Center Resources Around a Photonic Fabric

Software Only Strategy: Users can start the journey to a modern data center using Drut’s Software Platform (DSP) for new and existing data center equipment. We used our knowledge gained from building the Drut platform and applied some of the same concepts to our software practices. The key concept carried through all our product offerings, is to always maintain fluid resources at multiple layers, not just at the hardware layer, all the way up the software stack.

You need to have a system that you can redeploy with confidence, what we see with customers is that once they get their systems deployed, with the difficulty and effort required, they tend to avoid touching it again, meaning the next app needs new infrastructure. We want to make repurposing and rebuilding infrastructure easy.

Platform Strategy: At Drut we believe that the next wave of modern data centers requires real hardware innovation which is our PCIe over Photonics (PoP) disaggregated architecture, but this is only made possible with an innovative approach to cloud software services. Rather than trying to abstract the hardware layer away with some virtualization software layer, we want to disaggregate both hardware and software in order to close the loop between hardware composition and the software application layer provisioning. Our platform strategy provides:

Resource disaggregation using a ultra-low latency photonic fabric

Designed for modern cloud workloads, AI and HPC workloads without a specialized network

Designed for a single rack to cluster size deployments, across rows and pods

GPU virtualization and GPU cluster fabric

Our Focus Areas

What We Are

Drut is a system company, building a platform for efficient, high-performance AI, HPC, Cloud scale out built around software and photonics integration

What Challenges is Drut Focused on Solving?

1.Memory scale out mismatch

2.Interconnect bandwidth mismatch

3.Infrastructure scale requires sprawl and high cost

4.Resource utilization inefficiency that underpins energy waste

Our Architecture Approach

By crossing the final barrier from electrons to photons – architecture matters!

How does the Drut Platform provide value?

1. Latency – Direct connect, all photonic fabric provides the lowest possible latency allowing valuable machine resources to be directly connected into a composable node

2. Distance – Photonics eliminates the distance and physical locality challenges in the data center

3. Complexity – Removing stacked hierarchies of switches, protocols and overlays is the most direct method to remove complexity

4. Efficiency – Grouping resources via direct connect around workload requirements resolves the stranded resource challenge

5. Security – Like a SAN, workloads do not transgress over racks, spines and cores, they are isolated

6. OPEX – Using data center resources more efficiently, means getting more from less, such as less power, less cooling, less space

7.CAPEX – Reducing data center waste and decoupling resource upgrade cycles from the server upgrade cycle means capital can be spent with greater fidelity on what matters most

The Architecture

Software Defined Infrastructure Enabled by PCIe/CXL over Photonics

This approach addresses three challenges: (i) stranded resources, (ii) latency and (iii) distance. It has many other tangential benefits on OPEX, CAPEX, power efficiencies, security, but the adoption will occur because a photonic fabric at scale is the next evolution of the modern data center and for the first time in thirty years the technologies required to make the transition from electrons to photons are available.

First PCIe/CXL over Photonics with Cloud Software Platform

Our Approach

Our Focus Areas

The Architecture