France's Jean Zay supercomputer now has an integrated photonic coprocessor
>According to LightOn, its Appliance can reach a peak performance of 1.5 PetaOPS at 30W TDP and can deliver performance that 8 to 40 times higher than GPU-only acceleration.<p>Impressive!<p>LightOn hasn't received much discussion on here before. Some links have been submitted, and this is the only one I could find comments on: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27797829" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27797829</a>