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LightSolver Awarded €12.5M from the European Innovation Council to Advance its All-Optical Supercomputer
LightSolver, a company that has developed a new laser-based computing paradigm, has been selected for the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator Program. The company will receive an initial grant of €2.5 million from the EIC Fund, along with a future equity investment of €10 million, totaling €12.5M. The funding will be used to advance the commercialization of its platform and accelerate its growth in the high-performance computing (HPC) sector. LightSolvers Laser Processing Unit (LPU) uses the natural properties of light to execute complex mathematical operations, providing a more energy-efficient solution for compute-intensive workloads.
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LightSolver leverages 'quantum-inspired' laser processing tech
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14. Ruti Ben Shlomi, CEO and Co-Founder at LightSolver
LightSolver, a company co-founded by Ruti Ben Shlomi and Chene Tradonsky, is building a new supercomputer based purely on lasers. The company, which operates in Tel Aviv with 30 employees, has built the worlds first quantum-inspired laser-based solver to provide solutions for complex optimization problems. Clients use LightSolvers cloud platform for computations that would be energy-intensive on traditional supercomputers. The company is set to release the Laser Processing Unit (LPU) 100, capable of 100 laser spins, and is working on scaling capacity and building a rack-size device. By 2024, LightSolver plans to extend its functionality to include computations used in AI and machine learning.
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Overcoming the Limitations of Classical HPC and Quantum: A New Computational Method - High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC
LightSolver, a company co-founded by Ruti Ben-Shlomi, is developing a laser-based processing unit (LPU) that could potentially outperform both quantum and supercomputing in solving complex optimization problems. The LPU uses lasers to perform calculations, offering increased speed and improved accuracy. It is small, scalable, requires low power, and operates at room temperature. The LPU has shown promising results in solving complex optimization problems, exhibiting a two orders of magnitude improvement in speed compared to a powerful GPU. The company believes that the new LPU paradigm utilizing existing, proven laser technology is positioned to outpace both quantum and supercomputing in the coming years.
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LightSolver says lasers top classical, quantum for optimization - Inside Quantum Technology
Israeli company LightSolver has unveiled a pure laser-based processing unit (LPU), a new computing paradigm that it claims can outperform GPU-based supercomputers at optimization problems. The LPU, which is available as a software-as-a-service solution, uses all-optical coupled lasers that require no electronics to compute. This allows it to be as small as a traditional desktop computer while maximizing scalability, low power requirements, and room temperature operation. The company claims that its LPU has already proven its performance and accuracy in multiple published papers.
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Israeli start-up LightSolver, founded by Dr. Ruthi Ben Shlomi and Dr. Chen Tradonsky, has developed a powerful optical computer based on laser beams. The company recently outperformed tech giants such as Fujitsu, Toshiba, and D-Wave in a computational challenge set by researchers from the University of Southern California. LightSolvers computer was able to solve a problem with 16,000 variables, significantly more than its competitors. The company has raised $10 million in seed funding and employs 20 staff, all with PhDs. Customers include Rafael and NEC.
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