Optical-switching developer iPronics and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center announced a two-year collaboration on programmable optical networking for GPU infrastructure.

iPronics announced a two-year strategic technology collaboration with the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) on September 21. The announcement identifies iPronics as a developer of silicon-photonics-based optical circuit switching for AI infrastructure.

The collaboration focuses on programmable optical networking for next-generation GPU-based AI and high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure. Its stated scope is networking technology, rather than a disclosed purchase of GPUs or construction of a new data center.

The supplied excerpt does not identify a deployment site, switch port count, network bandwidth, funding amount, or commercial procurement commitment. It also contains no measured latency, energy-consumption, or application-throughput results from the collaboration.