ORGANIZERS:
Peter Winzer (Nubis Communications)
Shu Namiki (AIST)
Laurent Schares (IBM)

ABSTRACT:
This workshop focuses on advanced AI cluster scalability issues and solutions, covering a variety of important aspects such as scale-up and scale-out architectures and the supporting hardware, multi-chip package scaling, reliability and redundancy requirements, thermal and cooling challenges, as well as electrical and optical I/O solutions based on pluggable optics and near-package/co-packaged optics.

AGENDA:
Session 1: AI cluster architecture challenges
- Ashkan Seyedi (Nvidia)
- Dylan Patel (SemiAnalysis)
- Jean-Philippe Fricker (Cerebras)
- Drew Alduino (Meta)
- Andy Bechtoldsheim (Arista)
- Peter Liu (Formerica)

Session 2: I/O solutions for AI clusters
- Xiang He (Huawei)
- Tony Chan Carusone (Alphawave)
- Karl Muth (Broadcom)
- Matt Traverso (Marvell)
- Mizuki Shirao (Mitsubishi)
- Vipul Bhatt (Coherent)