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CAMAS, Wash. – April 20, 2010 – Lightfleet Corporation today announced that it has sold and installed its first commercial alpha unit at Microsoft Research. Lightfleet’s Direct Broadcast Optical Interconnect (DBOI) system uses broadcast light to reinvent the way computing nodes are connected in next generation data centers. Lightfleet’s DBOI technology creates a [...]
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Lightfleet Delivers First Optical Interconnect System to Microsoft Research
April 20th, 2010StartUp Beat: Featured Pitch
June 4th, 2010Written by John Peers, CEO for StartUpBeat.com May 26, 2010
Imagine for a moment that firms on Wall Street can execute trades and trading algorithms much faster, where trading even milliseconds faster can mean millions in profits; or that the military can put high-density analytics systems like facial recognition in command aircrafts to speed intelligence, decision [...]
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May 12th, 2010New Product Uses Light Connections in Blade Server
by George Lawton
A company has delivered the first version of a product that uses light signals, instead of cables and switches, to connect blade-server nodes. Lightfleet has sold and installed its Beacon prototype, a 32-node server, to Microsoft Research. Beacon uses the company’s Direct Broadcast Optical Interconnect (DBOI).
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InsideHPC.com: Microsoft Test Drives Switchless Optical Interconnect
April 23rd, 2010Posted by John West Apr 20, 2010
Lightfleet Corporation announced today that they’ve placed an alpha version of their optical interconnect technology at Microsoft Research……The unit was delivered to Microsoft Research’s eXtreme Computing Group, the team that Dan Reed heads up. A little more in the announcement, and I have an email in to the company [...]
GigaOM.com Comments on Microsoft Research Interconnect Delivery
April 23rd, 2010Posted By Stacey Higginbotham Apr. 20, 2010
Microsoft Research is the first commercial customer of a new optical equipment module made by a seven-year-old startup that hopes its gear will enable servers to send and receive information faster. Lightfleet, based in Camas, Wash. sold an alpha version of its Direct Broadcast Optical Interconnect system, which [...]
Cnet.com Asks: Will light replace cables in blade servers?
April 19th, 2010Posted April 19, 2010 on news.cnet.com by Ina Fried
A start-up has plans to turn the traditional approach to blade servers on its ear, and it’s not just smoke and mirrors. But it is light and mirrors.
For the past seven years, Lightfleet has been working on a technology that employs light signals to replace the cabling [...]
Switching at the Speed of Light
November 5th, 2008Curt Schwaderer writes in CompactPCI and AdvancedTCA Systems about Lightfleet technology and the programming model supporting it, concluding with “[Lightfleet technology] adds an important piece to the puzzle of advancing today’s communication infrastructure to the next level of usefulness.” Read the entire article here.
Lightfleet Names Global Experts to Science and Technology Advisory Board
March 5th, 2008Lightfleet® 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 [...]
A light touch speeds chatter among chips
October 29th, 2007The 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 emerges from stealth with broadcast optical interconnect
August 4th, 2007Lightfleet 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 [...]
Lightfleet™ Corporation Named “Cool Vendor” by Leading Analyst Firm
August 4th, 2007Vendors selected for the “Cool Vendor report” are innovative, impactful and intriguing. Read about Lightfleet in this report reprinted with permission from Gartner.