Un événement incontournable au sujet de technologies ouvertes pour centres de données
OCP Canada Tech Day brought together Canadian technical and business leadership, along with the OCP Community, to discuss and share progress and ideas important to advancing data center and edge technologies for AI. OCP Canada Tech Day is intended to showcase the latest innovations and technical advancements from around the world. Featuring talks from experts who are researching and designing the next generation of data center and edge computing equipment in the morning, followed by two afternoon breakout sessions covering (1) responsibly deploying next generation open AI/HPC clusters and (2) open ecosystems for mobile network hardware platforms.
This event was collocated with the IEEE International Conference on Communications and the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference!
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Session Slides:
- Event Welcome and Day Overview – OCP
- Welcome to the First OCP Canada Tech Day – OCP
- OCP Foundation CEO Opening Remarks – OCP
- Meta’s Innovations in Open-Source AI and Hardware – Meta
- AI at Scale : From Metal to Model – Denvr Dataworks
- Building the Intelligent Edge : AI Opeitons for 5G Network Operators – Bell Canada
- Co-Packaged Optics Market, Technology and Ecosystem Roadmap – Ranovus
- AI Transformation in the Enterprise – Microsoft
- Quantum 2030 – From Compute to Sensing – Why the Quantum Datacenter Era Begins Now – McMaster University
- Responsibly Deploying AI Clusters a Scale (Canada Landscape) – 650 Group
Afternoon Breakout Sessions
Open Systems for AI Clusters
AI is transforming the landscape of IT infrastructure, driving unprecedented growth in computational requirements and innovation across data center technologies. As AI workloads continue to accelerate, potentially doubling every six months, the demand for scalable, efficient and interoperable systems has never been greater. The OCP Community, through its Open Systems for AI initiative, is pioneering an open, collaborative approach to meet these challenges. This track explores how OCP’s modular designs, open standards and community-driven projects are shaping the future of AI infrastructure. This track equips technical leaders with strategies to plan, design, deploy, operate and optimize high-performance AI clusters with open systems.
Session Slides:
- Open Systems for AI Strategic Initiative – OCP
- Use of artificial intelligence on the Québec Power Grid: Short Term Demand Forecasting and visual inspection of underground structures – Hydro Quebec
- Beyond the Server, Financing Sustainable Ecosystems – Orbital Farm
- Meeting AIs Thermal Challenges with Direct Liquid Cooling – CoolIT Systems
- The evolution of Ethernet performance: unleashing the power of 1.6T – EXFO
- OCP S.A.F.E. – Foundational Firmware Security for AI Systems; an SRP’s Perspective – Tetrel Security
- Open Chiplet Economy – OCP
- AI Workloads Driving a New Era in Network Connectivity and Architecture – Alphawave Semi
- AI Cluster Interconnect needs, what KPIs matter the most for next generation systems requirements – Ranovus
- Accelerating AI with Light – Lightmatter
Responsibly Deploying Open Hardware and Software for Edge Computing
The increasing complexity and demand of high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) applications, has created a critical need for transformative innovations at the edge for inference. No doubt, mobile communications based on 3GPP- compliant network infrastructure will be an important part of the edge technology landscape. The challenge is to develop solutions that are not only innovative in computing and communication technology as well as design but also pragmatic to address many new market segments including Private networks and public macro 5G networks.
Session Slides:
- Edge Computing at the OCP – OCP
- Evenstar Open Radio Unit Strategic Initiative – OCP
- Optimizing ML Inference and Communication Across the Cloud-Edge Continuum – University of Quebec at Trois-Rivieres
- Bringing 5G and AI to the Mobile Edge – Bell Canada
- Automation, a Path to Autonomy – Dell Technologies
- Affordable and Scalable 5G Private Networks for SMBs Using Canada’s 3900 MHz NCLL Band – Blinq Networks
- Deploying Open Hardware for Edge and Aggregation Networking in Rural Area – Targo Communications and E.C.I. Networks
- Considerations for “Edge” Product Design – Celestica
- Is The Edge a Loss-Leader for RAN and O-RAN Deployments? – Mobia
- Edge Compiting Closing Q&A – Numana
Theme – From Ideas to Impact
The event theme for OCP Canada Tech Day, From Ideas to Impact, encapsulates the OCP Community’s transformative journey that drives openness, efficiency, sustainability, scalability and growth in the data center industry. The theme reflects OCP’s commitment to fostering innovation that transcends theoretical discussions and manifests into real-world complete solutions. As the pace of technological evolution accelerates and development cycles shorten, our industry is forced to rapidly respond to emerging trends and needs from cloud to the edge.
The increasing complexity and demand of high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) applications, has created a critical need for transformative innovations to allow for responsibly deploying AI/HPC from cloud to edge. We are at an inflection point in the data center industry driven by investments in high-density computational infrastructure for AI, for large training clusters and distributed inference clusters at the edge.
From a technology perspective, we see the need to rethink data center IT equipment, facilities and silicon supply chains. Previous inflection points moving from closed proprietary stacks to open ecosystems that drove the cloud era are still an important force and will play an important role in shaping the next wave of data center development. Important technology advancements in the data center delivering large-scale AI clusters for training include:
- chiplet technology and associated advanced packaging,
- new subsystems such as liquid cooling, power distribution, DC facilities Design, networking, storage, and server architectures, and
- systems management. Placing AI inference at the edge will require smaller scale but still high-performance computational equipment and high-speed low-latency optical communication networks to tie everything together.
We also must not ignore the hard fact that we must innovate to produce a new generation of IT equipment and data center facilities that are much less impactful to the environment. At OCP the community has taken the challenge to solve some of the most critical technical issues around sustainability. There are many dimensions to the sustainability problem:the critical dimensions of power, water consumption and carbon production must be tackled as soon as possible.
In planning the OCP Canada Tech Day, the OCP will bring together Canadian technical and business leadership along with the OCP Community to discuss and share progress and ideas important to advancing data center technologies and markets. OCP Canada Tech Day is intended to showcase the latest innovations and technical advancements from around the world, featuring talks from experts researching and designing the next generation of data center and edge computing equipment followed by two afternoon breakout sessions covering:
- Responsibly deploying next-generation, open AI/HPC clusters
- Open ecosystems for mobile network hardware platforms