Introducing Pod1

Rack-scale photonic compute Front elevation of the rack-scale system: five identical 42U cabinets side by side, each face a clean stack of blanking panels — thirty-two Photon-1 compute nodes and four Scale-1 switches behind them — with the LightScale mark on the base panel
A pod in a cabinet, tiled five wide — thirty-two Photon1 compute nodes and four Scale1 switches per rack, every data path in glass.
In Development

The rack is the deployment quantum

Every cabinet carries thirty-two Photon1 compute nodes and four Scale1 switches across two optical planes, so compute and fabric arrive together — lower it into its slot, cable the overhead trunks, and bring-up walks it into the fabric.

Sixteen racks of thirty-two nodes make a 512-node pod, and the pod’s inter-rack fabric is still glass, end to end.

Pod 16 racks × 32 nodes — 512 nodes per pod
Scale-out 64 + 64 duplex ports per rack into overhead fiber trunks
Fabric Torus, dragonfly, or on-demand topologies via Hyperlane
Boundary All-optical between racks — no OEO at any rack edge
The pod · sixteen racks · 512 nodes Angled axonometric view of a data-hall pod: two receding rows of eight rack cabinets — sixteen racks, 512 nodes — each fronted by clean blanking panels, with overhead fiber trunks running diagonally above each row

Deployment quantum

Compute and fabric ship in the same cabinet. A rack lowers into its slot, blind-cables to the overhead trunk, and bring-up walks it into the fabric — one repeatable unit of capacity.

All-glass scale-out

Each rack exposes 64 + 64 duplex ports into overhead fiber trunks that tile the pod into torus, dragonfly, or on-demand fabrics. Between racks, the data path stays optical end to end.

Matched bandwidth

Node-attach and scale-out bandwidth are matched 1 : 1, so the pod has no oversubscription cliff at the rack boundary — and Hyperlane shapes the topology per workload.

The rack · Open Rack V3 LightScale PHOTON¹ ×16 SCALE¹ ×4 PHOTON¹ ×16 OPTICAL · MMC OPTICAL · MMC 48 V POWER 2286 MM 600 MM 1068 MM 533 MM BAY 44 OU FRONT SIDE REAR
Blind-mate assembly · Open Rack V3 LightScale 32 × PHOTON¹ · 4 × SCALE¹ BACKPLANE · 48 V + MMC ORV3 CABINET