Photonic Resource Unit 1000 (PRU)
Drut’s Photonic Resource Unit 1000 is designed to host PCIe devices in Drut Photonic Fabric. The PRU 1000 supports connections to the Drut Photonic Switch (PXC) with one FIC 1000. A PRU 1000 supports up to four (4) PCIe 4.0 slots.
PRU 1000 Advantages
- By disaggregating the data center resources via a photonic fabric many architectural design advantages can be realized.
- Heterogeneous Device Support: The PRU 1000 allows you to deploy a mix of PCIE device types from a variety of manufacturers and compose machines with these devices.
- Discreet Upgrade Paths: By deploying the data center around pools of resources, devices within the pool can be upgraded independent of the server/CPU complex.
- Better Resource Utilization: Composing machines of resources around workload requirements and using a direct connect photonic fabric results in better resource utilization versus traditional stacked switching architectures.
- Attach/Detach Capability: PRU 1000 enables PCIe resources to be hosted and dynamically attached and detached from services via Drut’s Fabric Manager (DFM) Software.
