Our Approach

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

Resource disaggregation using ultra-low latency photonic fabric

Designed for modern cloud workloads

Enables dynamic machines tailored for HPC/ML workloads without a specialized network

Hardware and software platform designed to extract the value of an all-optical fabric and discreet advancements in resource technologies

Designed for two racks to cluster size deployments

GPU virtualization and GPU cluster fabric

Drut Platform Advantages

●What is Needed: A better method for organizing valuable data center resources around workloads through a software defined hardware hypervisor for bare metal.

●How will it be done? 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 to a machine cluster

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 way to remove complexity

4.Efficiency – Grouping resources via direct connect around workload 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

Our Innovations

Drut Software Platform (DSP): On-prem software platform that provides cloud like automation for end-users. Can be deployed as first step before evolving to PCIe over Photonics (PoP). Open-source built hypervisor with Luster, Ceph, K8s, OpenStack.

Drut Fabric Manager (DFM): Software defined bare metal resource manager. Connects software stacks from the DSP to resource pools of CPU, GPU, Storage, DPU, FPGA, etc. Programs the Drut fabric via the photonic switch (PXC).

Drut Fabric Interface Card (iFIC/tFIC): First PCIe/Photonic Integration with software based datapath transport for PCIe/CXL.

Drut Direct Connect Photonic Fabric (PXC): Large radix programmable photonic fabric that provides agility and a low latency interconnect.

Drut Photonic Resource Unit (PRU): Disaggregation chassis that connects resources (e.g.,GPU, Storage, IPU/FPGAs, TPUs) to photonic fabric

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.

At Drut we are Building the First PCIe/CXL over Photonics Platform

Our Approach

Drut Platform Advantages

Our Innovations

The Architecture