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Boeing Funds LightSolver To Advance Laser Optical Computing

Boeing is funding LightSolver to apply its laser-based computing technology to improve and accelerate complex engineering simulations involving the degradation of structural materials.

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Accelerating Sparse Linear Solvers with an Optical Laser Processing Unit

We explore an alternative computing paradigm based on analog optical processing, implemented through the Laser Processing Unit (LPU) for solving large, sparse linear systems.

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The Unique Benefits of LightSolver’s LPU Technology

Chene Tradonsky describes how the LPU can accelerate the solution of PDEs and how it can be added to current high-performance computing systems as a co-processor.

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Under the Hood: Building a Physics Simulator Out of Light

This post dives into the split-loop architecture of the LPU, explaining how the computational bottleneck shifts from arithmetic and memory bandwidth to a single question: how many round trips does the physics require?

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Computers Powered by Light Could Help AI’s Energy Problem

Optical computing for AI is interesting because some core computations could run faster with far less energy, said Chene Tradonsky, CTO at LightSolver.

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The Future of Science: 15 Big Predictions for 2026

Optical processors will move out of the lab to help solve partial differential equations (PDEs), the core mathematical work behind many of the scientific and engineering simulations that fill today’s HPC centers.

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