Photonic Mesh FNG Router - Optical timing-frozen control plane for hyperscale AI
Show HN: Fixing optical computing jitter via fluid dynamics in GPU registers
Photonic Mesh FNG Router is an exploratory proof-of-concept that tackles optical transmission jitter in hyperscale distributed AI systems. By fusing CUDA PTX, RAII memory tunnels, and JAX shard_map structures, it aims to achieve near-zero-overhead, fault-tolerant routing for optical interconnects. The project models light pulses as a compressible field, using warp-level register shuffles and branchless bitwise operations to bypass traditional buffering and reduce latency. It's designed for researchers and engineers working on next-gen optical data centers and large-scale LLM training, offering a novel approach to hardware-software co-design.
By gently integrating optical phase-shift metrics with multi-axis jax.shard_map structures and cross-stream asynchronous fences, we hope to investigate methods for minimizing inter-chassis photonics routing overheads toward 0ns.