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Lightfleet® Corporation, a technology company that uses advanced technologies for faster, smaller, and more energy-efficient computing solutions, has announced the members of the newly created Science and Technology Advisory Board (STAB). The Science and Technology Advisory Board includes recognized experts in several disciplines and will inform Lightfleet executives about developments that are relevant to the company. Selected members of the board are: Dr. Maarten Boasson, Dr. Joel R. Stiles, M.D. Ph.D, Jeffrey M. Birnbaum, and Dr. Marc L. Simpson. (more…)

The Columbian technology reporter Courtney Sherwood writes about the implications of Lightfleet technology:

“Here’s the idea: instead of forcing data to move from chip to chip along a series of cables, why not let the chips all talk at once?”

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Lightfleet Corporation has come out of stealth mode to reveal its unique all-to-all optical interconnect. The company’s “DBOI” technology is described as a “simultaneous, all-to-all, continuous broadcast optical interconnect.” Lightfleet’s goal is to eliminate the unwieldy mess of point-to-point cables that form the interconnect of very large highly parallel systems. Its solution substitutes a set of optical transmitters and receivers that connect through “free space” – that is, through the air and not guided by fibre optic cables. In addition to simplifying installations, replacing large numbers of point-to-point connections with optical broadcast also brings a significant savings in power.

Reprinted with permission from Ideas International.

Vendors selected for the “Cool Vendor report” are innovative, impactful and intriguing. Read about Lightfleet in this report reprinted with permission from Gartner.

Lightfleet’s DBOI fabric uses laser transmitters and opto-electric receivers to support inter-processor communication in a highly parallel fashion. Each compute or storage node contains a transmitter and a receiver. Mirrors and lenses are used to direct the light transmissions to receivers in an all-to-all topology. The all-to-all nature of the DBOI is the key to the technology.

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Breakthrough has broad future implications for computing, communications and embedded systems; initially enables compact, power-efficient and scalable parallel systems

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From Information Week: Startup Lightfleet Inc. says it has developed laser-based technology that moves data faster between large numbers of microprocessors in a server, boosting the processing speed of heavy-duty computing tasks found in scientific research and the financial industry.

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In The Transformers: Eight homegrown discoveries that will change the world, the Oregon Business magazine May 2007 cover story spotlights Lightfleet Corporation as an innovative computer technology company.

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