If the datacenter had been taken over by InfiniBand, as was originally intended back in the late 1990s, then PCI-Express peripheral buses and certainly PCI-Express switching – and maybe even Ethernet switching itself – would not have been necessary at all. …
We are in the midst of numerous foundational technological shifts in communications infrastructure that represents a generational opportunity for consumers, businesses, and providers alike. …
No matter if you are talking about compute or networking, there are two opposing forces that are constantly at interplay on a field of green money. …
In the IT sector, there is a constant flow of little changes to hardware and software that culminate in progress. …
Cisco Systems may still be the biggest supplier of switches and routers in general, but it has long since been surpassed by Broadcom when it comes to suppling the silicon that does the switching itself and sometimes even a little bit of routing in the datacenter in particular. …
The shift by enterprise IT vendors from hardware box makers to software and services vendors has been ongoing for several years as OEMs have looked to adapt to the rapid changes in a tech world that is becoming application- and data-centric. …
If this is the middle of November, even during a global pandemic, this must be the SC20 supercomputing conference and there either must be a speed bump that is being previewed for the InfiniBand interconnect commonly used for HPC and AI or it is actually shipping in systems. …
The compute engines keep changing as the decades pass, but the same old problems keep cropping up in slightly different form. …
If you want to get a sense of what is happening in the high-end of the Ethernet switch and routing market, it is Arista Networks, formerly an upstart and now just one of the bigger vendors taking on the hegemony of Cisco Systems in networking in the datacenter and now on the campus and at the edge, is probably the best bellwether there is. …
Maximizing the aggregate amount of compute that can be brought to bear for any given pile of money is what traditional high performance computing is all about. …
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