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The Tectonic Shift To Virtual Distributed Routing
In the IT sector, there is a constant flow of little changes to hardware and software that culminate in progress. …
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Broadcom Widens And Smartens Switch Chip Lineup
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. …
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Modern Networks For An Increasingly Distributed IT World
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. …
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InfiniBand Is Still Setting The Network Pace For HPC And AI
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. …
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Counting The Cost Of Under-Utilized GPUs – And Doing Something About It
The compute engines keep changing as the decades pass, but the same old problems keep cropping up in slightly different form. …
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Switching Back Into A Higher Gear
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. …
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For HPC And AI, Composability Might Trump Cheap Flops
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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FRR: The Most Popular Network Router You’ve Never Heard Of
Everyone in the networking industry seems to fall into one of two camps: those that have used server-based routing software and those that have no idea such a thing exists. …
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Intel Networking: Not Just A Bag Of Parts
What is the hardest job at Intel, excepting whoever is in charge of the development of chip etching processes and the foundries that implement it? …
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Why The DPU Is More Important Than The CPU For Nvidia
If you are fairly new to the IT racket, you might be under the impression that the waves of integration and disaggregation in compute, networking, and storage that swept over the datacenter in recent decades were all new, that somehow the issues of complexity and cost did not plague systems of the past. …