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Cloud Foundation Updates Reflect The New VMware By Broadcom
Broadcom’s $69 billion acquisition of virtualization stalwart VMware was not an easy proposition. …
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With Thor 2, Broadcom Wants To Become The AI Network Adapter
Aside from all of the buzz that optics get in datacenter networking, copper is still king of the short haul. …
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Pushing PCI-Express Switches And Retimers To Boost Server Bandwidth
Things would go a whole lot better for server designs if we had a two year or better still a four year moratorium on adding faster compute engines to machines. …
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Micas Takes On Arista And The Whiteboxes In Datacenter Switching
The rise of the merchant silicon suppliers for datacenter networking and routing, which was spearheaded by Broadcom with chips and Arista Networks with switches, was not a foregone conclusion. …
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Everybody Tries To Leverage VMware To Their Advantage
Our choice of words in founding this publication nearly a decade ago were no accident. …
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Ethernet Consortium Shoots For 1 Million Node Clusters That Beat InfiniBand
Here we go again. Some big hyperscalers and cloud builders and their ASIC and switch suppliers are unhappy about Ethernet, and rather than wait for the IEEE to address issues, they are taking matters in their own hands to create what will ultimately become an IEEE standard that moves Ethernet forward in a direction and speed of their choosing. …
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Cisco Guns For InfiniBand With Silicon One G200
It was a fortuitous coincidence that Nvidia was already working on massively parallel GPU compute engines for doing calculations in HPC simulations and models when the machine learning tipping point happened, and similarly, it was fortunate for InfiniBand that it had the advantage of high bandwidth, low latency, and remote direct memory access across GPUs at that same moment. …
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Broadcom Takes On InfiniBand With Jericho3-AI Switch Chips
Variety is not only the spice of life, it is also the way to drive innovation and to mitigate risk. …
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Broadcom Secures The Edge By Beefing Up The Network Core
A lot of compute is moving to the edge, and that means that networking and storage has to follow it. …
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Like A Drumbeat, Broadcom Doubles Ethernet Bandwidth With “Tomahawk 5”
If there is anything that hyperscalers and cloud builders value more than anything else, it is regularity and predictability. …