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The Back End AI Network Puts Pressure On The Front End

November 8, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

For most of the history of high performance computing, a supercomputer was a freestanding, isolated machine that was designed to run some simulation or model and the only link it needed to the outside world was a relatively small one to show some visualization. …

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Ethernet Switching Bucks The Server Recession Trend

January 3, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan 4

You might be thinking that with all of the investment in AI systems these days that the boom in InfiniBand interconnect sales would be eating into sales of high-end Ethernet interconnects in the datacenter. …

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Ethernet Switching Still Booming As Routing Soldiers On

June 21, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

If the datacenter is the computer – and it certainly is for hundreds of companies comprising somewhere well north of half of server sales worldwide – then the Ethernet fabric, consisting of switches and routers, is the backplane of that computer. …

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