Manageability Workshop presented by DMTF
Tuesday, October 13 – 1:00 to 5:00pm – San Jose Conv. Center, Room: LL21BC
DMTF’s Manageability Workshop will feature the latest updates on infrastructure management from member companies, many of which are also active in OCP projects around hardware management, Redfish, and open-source development. Attendees will learn about the latest information, as well as unpublished developments that affect the OCP manageability community, from DMTF experts and industry leaders. There will be updates on AI, Redfish, SPDM, libspdm, PLDM, and more.
SONiC Workshop
Wednesday, October 14 – 8:00 to 5:00pm – San Jose Conv. Center, Room: 230A
The SONiC Workshop brings together users, contributors, maintainers, and ecosystem partners to share technical insights, deployment experiences, best practices, and the latest innovations in the SONiC ecosystem.
Enabling an Open, Scalable, Sustainable AI Infrastructure – OIF Workshop
Tuesday, October 13 – 1:00 to 5:00pm – San Jose Conv. Center, Room: LL20BCD
Objectives:
- Align on the key demands and challenges of AI infrastructure including exploding bandwidth needs, power and thermal constraints, high speed signal integrity, latency, and the risk of industry fragmentation
- Understand the OIF’s role in the development of interconnect standards and how these activities strengthen the industry ecosystem
- Hear from industry luminaries on the impact of innovative OIF implementation agreements, interoperability specifications and demonstrations
- Engage with industry leaders to enable a scalable AI infrastructure
Topics:
This workshop will address the OIF projects recently completed and currently underway to enable electrical and optical architectures and solutions as well as control interfaces between them. This will include 224Gbps and 448Gbps electrical channel specifications, next-generation optical channel specifications, CPO and NPO based architectures, external laser packaging, next-generation high density electrical interconnects, coherent optics, and common management interface firmware methodology.
Revolutionizing AI Scale Up with Pluggable NPO: Why Does It Matter? – IPEC Optical Interconnect Workshop
Tuesday, October 13 – 1:00 to 5:00pm – San Jose Conv. Center, Room: 230A
The next revolution in AI computing is being driven by scale up, enabling increasingly large and powerful “SuperPods.” As these systems continue to grow, physical electrical interconnects are approaching fundamental limits. Near Packaged Optics (NPO) introduces a new connectivity paradigm, moving optics closer to compute and making it an increasingly fundamental part of the computing system itself.
The objective of this workshop is to explore how NPO provides low propagation loss, high bandwidth, and superior signal integrity to overcome the fundamental limits of electrical interconnects, and to analyze system level performance across bandwidth, energy, and latency metrics. Industry stakeholders will share advanced NPO products, deployment experience, emerging architectures, and future technology roadmaps that extend optical connectivity deeper into AI systems.
The workshop will focus on hyperscale end user case studies, design and packaging challenges, implementation, and commercialization. Looking beyond today’s “SuperPods,” the workshop will explore the path toward increasingly large and tightly connected “HyperPods,” where optics prevails as the dominant interconnect technology across the system, enabling the next level of scale and integration. The workshop will bring together hyperscale and cloud operators, system integrators, switch vendors, and innovative technology vendors to exchange technology and market intelligence and help align future products, roadmaps, and supply chains around the next generation of AI computing.
