Even As Bandwidth Needs Explode, Ethernet Spending Is In Recession
No one like the R word, but we don’t shy away from data and calling it like we see it. …
No one like the R word, but we don’t shy away from data and calling it like we see it. …
It has become a well known fact these days that the switches that are used to interconnect distributed systems are not the most expensive part of that network, but rather it is the optical transceivers and fiber optic cables that comprise the bulk of the cost. …
It is hard to believe that Amazon Web Services has been selling compute, storage, and networking capacity for nearly two decades. …
Effects are multiplicative, not additive, when it comes to increasing compute engine performance. …
When you are designing applications that run across the scale of an entire datacenter and that are comprised of hundreds to thousands of microservices running on countless individual servers and that have to be called within a matter of microseconds to give the illusion of a monolithic application, building fully connected, high bi-section bandwidth Clos networks is a must. …
Nvidia hit a rare patch of bad news earlier this month when reports started circulating claiming that the company’s much-anticipated “Blackwell” GPU accelerators could be delayed by as much as three months due to design flaws. …
Current AI training and some AI inference clusters have two networks. …
Like many other suppliers of hardware and systems software, Cisco Systems is trying to figure out how to make money on the AI revolution. …
SPONSORED POST: The rapid breakout of Artificial Intelligence is driving business opportunities across verticals – but there’s one sector for which AI presents some formidable challenges, and that’s the datacenter industry itself. …
UPDATED: Nvidia is a member of the Ultra Ethernet Consortium.
The jury is still out on a lot of things about this exploding AI market and the re-convergence that it will have with traditional HPC systems for running simulations and models. …
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