Fairfax Co. students create light-powered super chip, impacting data center industry

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It all kind of begs the question whether one of the parents works on optical computing as their day job at one of the several local Federal/Federally-funded labs with active work in that area…

A lot of TJ students have a parent who is feeding them ideas from their workplace. Or outright doing the work for them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:*big eye roll* I don't deny that these kids are smart and entrepreneurial, but the marketing hype is just cringy.

typical south East Indians.

part of the culture.

north west Indians are the best

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It all kind of begs the question whether one of the parents works on optical computing as their day job at one of the several local Federal/Federally-funded labs with active work in that area…

What are the computing hardware labs in VA?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It all kind of begs the question whether one of the parents works on optical computing as their day job at one of the several local Federal/Federally-funded labs with active work in that area…

A lot of TJ students have a parent who is feeding them ideas from their workplace. Or outright doing the work for them.

what's next? have you heard of parents going and sitting in the TJ classrooms to also do classwork?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.06749

Tensor algebra lies at the core of computational science and machine learning. Due to its high usage, entire libraries exist dedicated to improving its performance. Conventional tensor algebra performance boosts focus on algorithmic optimizations, which in turn lead to incremental improvements. In this paper, we describe a method to accelerate tensor algebra a different way: by outsourcing operations to an optical microchip. We outline a numerical programming language developed to perform tensor algebra computations that is designed to leverage our optical hardware's full potential. We introduce the language's current grammar and go over the compiler design. We then show a new way to store sparse rank-n tensors in RAM that outperforms conventional array storage (used by C++, Java, etc.). This method is more memory-efficient than Compressed Sparse Fiber (CSF) format and is specifically tuned for our optical hardware. Finally, we show how the scalar-tensor product, rank-$n$ Kronecker product, tensor dot product, Khatri-Rao product, face-splitting product, and vector cross product can be compiled into operations native to our optical microchip through various tensor decompositions.

Impressive that FCPS kids are showing "a new way to store sparse rank-n tensors in RAM that outperforms conventional array storage".

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.06749.pdf
I'm trying to understand the discussion in this paper, but it's beyond my grasp. Is Tensor Algebra taught in one of the TJ math courses?

Tensor algebra means matrix multiplication. It's advanced Algebra 2 / Precalc. Lots and lots of multiplication and additional.

You correctly noticed that research papers use precise technical terms that make the ideas harder to understand for an outsider.

Your job also has jargon that sounds complicated to an outsider, but it's just a specific term for a kind of [whatever your general job is]

Obtain a silicon dioxide flask of dihydrogen monoxide and osmote it across your cellular membranes. (Drink a glass of water.)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Instead of showing racist attitude towards Indian American community, let's be thankful for their service and contributions to the tech world:


Sanjay Mehrotra is the CEO of Micron Technology; Shantanu Narayen is the CEO of Adobe; Satya Nadella is Chairman and CEO of Microsoft; Sunder Pichai is the CEO of Alphabet and Google; Jay Chaudhry is the CEO of Zscaler which is a cloud security company; Arvind Krishna is the CEO of IBM; Neal Mohan is the CEO of YouTube; and George Kurian is the CEO of NetApp, among the top tech giants.

None of these companies was created by them though.

Here's a stack of Indian-American inventors, founders, and CEOs.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/11/powerful-indians-silicon-valley

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It all kind of begs the question whether one of the parents works on optical computing as their day job at one of the several local Federal/Federally-funded labs with active work in that area…

You have no shame, do you? Imbeciles like you seem to derive sadistic pleasure from casting doubt on the exceptional efforts of students, insinuating that they must have been carried out by adults instead.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It all kind of begs the question whether one of the parents works on optical computing as their day job at one of the several local Federal/Federally-funded labs with active work in that area…

You have no shame, do you? Imbeciles like you seem to derive sadistic pleasure from casting doubt on the exceptional efforts of students, insinuating that they must have been carried out by adults instead.

Not PP, and I am sure the kids are very smart, but the article is marketing on vapors bordering on the level of Theranos.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It all kind of begs the question whether one of the parents works on optical computing as their day job at one of the several local Federal/Federally-funded labs with active work in that area…

A lot of TJ students have a parent who is feeding them ideas from their workplace. Or outright doing the work for them.

what's next? have you heard of parents going and sitting in the TJ classrooms to also do classwork?

No but they do their homework for them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It all kind of begs the question whether one of the parents works on optical computing as their day job at one of the several local Federal/Federally-funded labs with active work in that area…

A lot of TJ students have a parent who is feeding them ideas from their workplace. Or outright doing the work for them.

what's next? have you heard of parents going and sitting in the TJ classrooms to also do classwork?

No but they do their homework for them.

you seem to be a misanthropic individual holding grudge against TJ students. hope you address your hatred and find peace

[Anonymous]

Unsurprisingly, they've already shut down their fake photonic chip company, and pivoted to neural network software. 2 of the founders pivoted to work on generic hardware design software projects.

[Anonymous]

Old news: https://youtu.be/29aTqLvRia8?si=nKdKrxBOk8F8P1le

https://youtu.be/t1R7ElXEyag?si=ASHkXsGBkr7P6goC

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.06749

Tensor algebra lies at the core of computational science and machine learning. Due to its high usage, entire libraries exist dedicated to improving its performance. Conventional tensor algebra performance boosts focus on algorithmic optimizations, which in turn lead to incremental improvements. In this paper, we describe a method to accelerate tensor algebra a different way: by outsourcing operations to an optical microchip. We outline a numerical programming language developed to perform tensor algebra computations that is designed to leverage our optical hardware's full potential. We introduce the language's current grammar and go over the compiler design. We then show a new way to store sparse rank-n tensors in RAM that outperforms conventional array storage (used by C++, Java, etc.). This method is more memory-efficient than Compressed Sparse Fiber (CSF) format and is specifically tuned for our optical hardware. Finally, we show how the scalar-tensor product, rank-$n$ Kronecker product, tensor dot product, Khatri-Rao product, face-splitting product, and vector cross product can be compiled into operations native to our optical microchip through various tensor decompositions.

Impressive that FCPS kids are showing "a new way to store sparse rank-n tensors in RAM that outperforms conventional array storage".

That is cool, but how is this related to the light-powered super chip?

It's an algorithm that would turn fundamental deep learning operations currently run on GPUs into operations that could run on a hypothetical optical microchip

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.06749

Tensor algebra lies at the core of computational science and machine learning. Due to its high usage, entire libraries exist dedicated to improving its performance. Conventional tensor algebra performance boosts focus on algorithmic optimizations, which in turn lead to incremental improvements. In this paper, we describe a method to accelerate tensor algebra a different way: by outsourcing operations to an optical microchip. We outline a numerical programming language developed to perform tensor algebra computations that is designed to leverage our optical hardware's full potential. We introduce the language's current grammar and go over the compiler design. We then show a new way to store sparse rank-n tensors in RAM that outperforms conventional array storage (used by C++, Java, etc.). This method is more memory-efficient than Compressed Sparse Fiber (CSF) format and is specifically tuned for our optical hardware. Finally, we show how the scalar-tensor product, rank-$n$ Kronecker product, tensor dot product, Khatri-Rao product, face-splitting product, and vector cross product can be compiled into operations native to our optical microchip through various tensor decompositions.

Impressive that FCPS kids are showing "a new way to store sparse rank-n tensors in RAM that outperforms conventional array storage".

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.06749.pdf
I'm trying to understand the discussion in this paper, but it's beyond my grasp. Is Tensor Algebra taught in one of the TJ math courses?

tensor algebra = arithmetic with large, multidimensional arrays of numbers. Matrices are 2d, for example

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It all kind of begs the question whether one of the parents works on optical computing as their day job at one of the several local Federal/Federally-funded labs with active work in that area…

That would be my guess. It's clearly done by a parent and not students.