SYSTEM EMBEDDED PHOTONIC INTERCONNECT FOR MEGA-DATA CENTRE ENVIRONMENTS Richard Pitwon Seagate Systems UK ICSJ 2016 Kyoto, Japan 8th November 2016
The “New Data” is Different Unstructured data is fundamentally changing IT
IDC Worldwide File- and Object-Based Storage 2013-2017 Forecast, July 2013.
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Digital Universe: 2020
44ZB
15.4ZB
9.9ZB*
Amount of data that will be created
Amount of data that will be useful if stored
Amount of data that installed capacity will be able to hold
Demand EXCEEDS all providers – COMBINED Sources: Reinsel, David. “Where in the World Is Storage: A Look at Byte Density Across the Globe” IDC October 2013, IDC/EMC Digital Universe, April 2014 + Seagate Estimates * Includes Sources: Reinsel, David. “Where inall thestorage World Is mediums Storage: A Look at Byte Density Across the Globe” IDC October 2013, IDC/EMC Digital Universe, April 2014 + Seagate Estimates
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The Move Toward Mobility Is Shifting the Location of Data Location of exabytes shipped 0%
105 Exabytes
35% 65%
PC Storage
In 2010, more than half of the storage was shipped into the PC market…
Non-PC Storage
Source: Strategic Marketing & Research End of Quarter Database, Product Portfolio TAM Publication (Rev 62)
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The Move Toward Mobility Is Shifting the Location of Data Location of exabytes shipped
11%
35%
6 %
20%
…By 2020, that predominance will dramatically shift to non-PC Storage
65%
907 Exabytes
69% PC Storage
Source: Strategic Marketing & Research End of Quarter Database, Product Portfolio TAM Publication (Rev 62)
Non-PC Storage
Tablet and Smartphone storage
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Where Compute Takes Place Now 450
2.2
400
2.1 2.1
350 2.1 300 2.1 250 2.1 200 2.0
Smartphones & Tablets in Billions
Devices in Millions
Today, EIGHT OF TEN compute devices are TABLETS and SMARTPHONES and SEVEN OF TEN Notebooks have slimmer form factors for increased mobility
Ultramobile Basic Ultramobile Utility Tablet Ultraslim Notebook PC Convertible Notebook PC Chromebook Mini Notebook PC Traditional Notebook PC Smartphones & Tablets
150
2.0
100
2.0 CY13
CY14
CY15
CY16
CY17
CY18
Source: IDC – WW PC Tracker, March 2016; Gartner – WW PC Forecast September 4Q2015; Forward Insights – NAND Insights, 4Q15 (Tablets & Mobile Phones)
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Data Center Exabytes Continue To Grow 80
500
70
450
400 350
50
300
40
250
30
200
Exabytes
Units in Millions
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150
20
100
10
50
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0 CY12
CY13
CY14
Mission Critical Units
CY15
CY16
Business Critical Units
Source: Seagate Strategic Marketing & Research – Portfolio Management TAM Publication (Rev 62)
CY17
CY18
CY19
Enterprise Exabytes
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Emergence of Mega Data Centres
Source: Google
Photonic research and development
Source: Facebook
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Optical Interconnect Migration Optically enabled data centre racks and enclosures
Optically enabled data storage platforms
Photonic research and development
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Rack-level interconnect regime
Optical Interconnect Migration High RF PCB materials for long trace lengths
High speed electrical PCB trace length range = 10 cm – 30 cm
SFP transceivers
Photonic research and development
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Board-level interconnect regime
Optical Interconnect Migration Standard optical fibre ribbon over PCB
High speed electrical PCB trace length range = 5 cm - 20 cm
Midboard optical modules (high port count)
Photonic research and development
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Board-level interconnect regime
Optical Interconnect Migration Standard optical fibre ribbon over PCB
High speed electrical PCB trace length range = 1 cm - 3 cm
Midboard optical modules (commodity, low port count)
Photonic research and development
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Board-level interconnect regime
Optical Interconnect Migration PCB embedded optical channels e.g. polymer or glass
High speed electrical PCB trace length range = 1 cm - 3 cm
Midboard optical modules (commodity, low port count)
Photonic research and development
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Chip-level interconnect regime
Optical Interconnect Migration Standard optical fibre ribbon over PCB
High speed electrical PCB trace length range < 1 cm
Photonic research and development
Photonic integrated circuit technologies
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Chip-level interconnect regime
Optical Interconnect Migration PCB embedded optical channels e.g. polymer or glass
High speed electrical PCB trace length range < 1 cm
Photonic research and development
Photonic integrated circuit technologies
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Photonically enabled data centre systems
Global Investment in Integrated Photonics European Union FP7 and H2020 Photonics R&D programmes >$500 million spent over last 10 years in PIC technologies >$200 million more by 2020
United States of America Integrated Photonics Manufacturing Institute The US government has set up its latest manufacturing initiative, the sixth of nine, to address integrated photonics. The $610 million venture is a combination of public and private funding: $110 million from the Department of Defense, $250 million from the state of New York and the rest private contributions. Japan PETRA - Photonics Electronic Technology Research Association Substantial funding over 10 years (2010 - 2020) Photonic research and development
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Electro-optical Midplane Technologies Fibre-optic flexplane
Pegasus
Photonic research and development
Polymer waveguides
FirstLight
Planar glass waveguides
SEPIANet
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Research and Development - Integrated Photonics in Data Centres
System integrated photonics
Photonic research and development
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PhoxTroT project
(Oct 2012 – Oct 2016)
Photonics for High-Performance, Low-Cost & Low-Energy Data Centers, High Performance Computing Systems Terabit/s Optical Interconnect Technologies for On-Board, Board-to-Board, Rack-to-Rack data links
Photonic research and development
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PhoxTroT project
Photonic research and development
(Oct 2012 – Oct 2016)
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PhoxTroT project
(Oct 2012 – Oct 2016)
Photonically enabled disaggregated SAS data centre switch and storage platform
Photonic research and development
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PhoxTroT project
(Oct 2012 – Oct 2016)
Singlemode embedded optical interconnect
Photonic research and development
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PhoxTroT project
(Oct 2012 – Oct 2016)
Photonic integrated circuit and 3D assembly
Photonic research and development
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PhoxTroT project
(Oct 2012 – Oct 2016)
Multimode optical interconnect – interchangeable test daughtercard and mezzanine card form factor
Board-to-board
Photonic research and development
Fibre-to-board
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PhoxTroT project
(Oct 2012 – Oct 2016)
Multimode optical interconnect – interchangeable test daughtercard and mezzanine card form factor
Interchangeable mezzanine card 1
Photonic research and development
Interchangeable mezzanine card 2
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PhoxTroT project
(Oct 2012 – Oct 2016)
Multimode optical interconnect – interchangeable test daughtercard and mezzanine card form factor
Interchangeable mezzanine card 1
Photonic research and development
Interchangeable mezzanine card 2
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PhoxTroT project
(Oct 2012 – Oct 2016)
Multimode optical interconnect – interchangeable optical waveguide flexplane MT ferrule
Providers
Photonic research and development
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PhoxTroT project Aurora
(PhoxDem09.03)
(Oct 2012 – Oct 2016)
- Multimode universal optical interconnect platform MT ferrule
Photonic research and development
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PhoxTroT project Aurora
(PhoxDem09.03)
Photonic research and development
(Oct 2012 – Oct 2016)
- Multimode universal optical interconnect platform
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Nephele project
(Feb 2015 – Feb 2018)
End to end scalable and dynamically reconfigurable optical architecture for application aware SDN Cloud datacenters Hybrid electro-optical data centre architecture
Photonic research and development
Converged data storage and compute platform
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Nephele project
Photonic research and development
(Feb 2015 – Feb 2018)
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Kinetic Value Proposition CAPEX
APPLICATION Kinetic Library
OPEX ETHERNET PERFORMANCE
SCALE & SIMPLICITY
DEVICES Ethernet Interface Key Value Store Cylinder, Head, Sector Drive HDA Seagate Confidential
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Pegasus Optically enabled object-oriented disaggregated data centre platform End node subsystem Storage or compute node
FireBird
Electro-optical midplane
Ethernet switch controller module
Fibre flexplane
Photonic research and development
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Pegasus Optically enabled object-oriented disaggregated data centre platform
Photonic research and development
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Pegasus Optically enabled Ethernet controller with mezzanine optical engine slots Host side optical mezzanine
Optical front end mezzanine 1 interchangeable front end mezzanine card for upstream optical links with 4 SFP+s
Photonic research and development
Midboard optical mezzanine
Optical midboard mezzanine modules 2 interchangeable mezzanine cards with midboard optical transceivers for downstream optical links
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Pegasus Optically enabled Ethernet controller with mezzanine optical engine slots
MXC optical interface allowing direct optical access to all back-end drives / micro-servers Photonic research and development
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Pegasus Optically enabled Ethernet controller with mezzanine optical engine slots
MXC optical interface allowing direct optical access to all back-end drives / micro-servers Photonic research and development
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Electro-optical midplane 192 fibre flexplane with PRIZM® MT ferrule terminations
Photonic research and development
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Electro-optical midplane 192 fibre flexplane with PRIZM® MT ferrule terminations
Photonic research and development
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Electro-optical midplane Electrical midplane with high speed electrical channels included
Photonic research and development
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Electro-optical midplane Electrical midplane with high speed electrical channels removed
Over 30% increase in open board area achieved
Photonic research and development
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COSMICC project
(Dec 2015 – Dec 2018)
CMOS Solutions for Mid-board Integrated transceivers with breakthrough Connectivity at ultra-low Cost
High volume silicon photonics manufacture
Optical coupling schemes
Standardised test platform
Photonic research and development
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COSMICC project
(Dec 2015 – Dec 2018)
CMOS Solutions for Mid-board Integrated transceivers with breakthrough Connectivity at ultra-low Cost
Current hybrid photonic-electronic fabrication platform
Photonic research and development
SiN-enhanced platform + Compact Si mod.
III-V laser integration in the SiNenhanced platform
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COSMICC project
Photonic research and development
(Dec 2015 – Dec 2018)
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PhoxLab - Converged data centre test environment
Photonic research and development
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PhoxLab - Converged data centre test environment Aurora (PhoxDem09.03) Multimode optical interconnect platform
Pegasus 1 (NephDem06.01) Optically disaggregated object oriented platform
ThunderValley2 (PhoxTest03.01) Photonically enabled disaggregated SAS data centre switch and storage platform
Aurora2 (PhoxDem10.2) Singlemode glass waveguide optical interconnect platform System interface Dual display system diagnostic interface
Pegasus 2 (PhoxDem09.04) Enhanced object oriented platform with system embedded waveguides
Computer bay Local computer bay to drive converged test regimes Photonic research and development
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PhoxLab - Converged data centre test environment
Photonic research and development
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Thank you Richard Pitwon Photonics group leader
[email protected]
Photonic research and development
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