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Innovium Boosts Switch Chip Performance Without A Process Shrink
Bringing a new switch ASIC to market is no easy task, and it isn’t cheap, either. …
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When Diverse Network ASICs Meet A Unifying Operating System
It has been two decades since Juniper Networks, then the big upstart rival to Cisco Systems and others as the dot-com boom was rising towards its crescendo several years hence, took FreeBSD Unix and turned it into a network operating system that spanned both routers and switches. …
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Eating The Interconnect Alphabet Soup With Intel’s CXL
The dividing lines between system buses, system intraconnects, and system interconnects are getting more blurry all the time. …
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Everyone Will Want Higher Bandwidth And More Ports – Eventually
The speed bumps with switch ASICs are coming fast and furious these days, and the datacenter is no longer dominated by the big switch incumbents such as Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks, which made their own chips, switches, and operating systems, and the networking divisions of server OEMs like Dell and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which made some of their own gear – including ASICs – and acquired other companies to help build out their networking businesses – who sometimes also did their own ASICs. …
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Networking Needs More Than Incremental Innovation
The apocryphal Chinese curse – “May you live in interesting times” – certainly applies to the datacenter of the early 21st century. …
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On-Chip Optical Links Are One Step Closer To Reality
Ayar Labs looks like it is just about ready to put its optical I/O chiplet technology into commercial datacenter products. …
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Inside HPE’s Gen-Z Switch Fabric
Even before it launched a $1.3 billion acquisition of Cray back in May, Hewlett Packard Enterprise has had exascale aspirations. …
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The Future Of Networks Depends On Hyperscalers And Big Clouds
If you want for the rapid pace of innovation in datacenter networking to continue, then you had better hope that the hyperscalers and major public cloud builders don’t run out of money. …
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How Cray Makes Ethernet Suited For HPC And AI With Slingshot
Last fall, supercomputer maker Cray announced that it was getting back to making high performance cluster interconnects after a six year hiatus, but the company had already been working on its “Rosetta” switch ASIC for the Slingshot interconnect for quite a while before it started talking publicly about it. …
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Intel Goes Barefoot As It Leaves The Omni-Path
The handwriting has been on the wall for some time now, but Intel has quietly dropped its 200 Gb/sec Omni-Path networking from its roadmaps and will be using other technology for interconnects going forward. …