AI Networking Challenges – A System Perspective

The advent and adoption of AI/ML has led to a demand for increased computing power and the hardware and network architectures to support them. Photonics is emerging as a promising technology to address this demand; however, to do so it must reinvent itself to meet the unique challenges of the hyperscale AI cluster, and these requirements will vary for different applications within the cluster architecture. This work analyzes some of the requirements for optical interconnects and their adoption within the cluster.