It looks like networking price war is getting set to break out in the largest datacenters of the world, and this is precisely what Google and Microsoft had in mind when they formed the 25G Ethernet consortium back in July 2014. …
The next generation, high speed, low latency fabric known as the Intel Omni-Path Architecture (OPA), made an informal debut in July at this year’s ISC conference in Frankfurt. …
As we have discussed at length here at The Next Platform, the dividing lines between high performance computing datacenters and their cloud or web-scale compatriots are blurring, fed in part by increasing data sizes and the speeds at which data must be moved. …
While companies are beginning to think at the rack scale and hyperscalers like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and others have long since been thinking about computing at the scale of an entire datacenter, it is important to remember that computing happens at the server node and therefore the server node architecture matters. …
After many years of investment, Mellanox Technologies is reaping from the research and development that it has sown in the InfiniBand and Ethernet markets, pushing up bandwidth to 56 Gb/sec and now to 100 Gb/sec just as Intel’s “Haswell” Xeon E5 v3 processors – the dominant CPUs behind the machines cloud, hyperscale, and HPC datacenters – are ramping. …
The 25 Gb/sec Ethernet effort that was launched by Google and Microsoft a little more than a year ago, along with switch and adapter chip makers Broadcom and Mellanox Technologies and switch maker Arista Networks, continues to gather steam. …
While supercomputing centers and hyperscalers would agree about many things when it comes to systems architecture and the need to use certain technologies to goose the performance and the scale of their applications, they often have a fundamental disagreement when it comes to networking. …
Intel has spent a considerable sum of money acquiring switching technologies over the past several years as well as doing a whole bunch of its own engineering so it can branch out in a serious way into the $25 billion networking business and keep its flagship Data Center Group growing and profitable. …
Ratcheting up the bandwidth on networks has been easier in many ways that getting low and predictable latencies for the transfer of information across those networks. …
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