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This AI Network Has No Spine – And That’s A Good Thing

August 23, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan 6

When you are designing applications that run across the scale of an entire datacenter and that are comprised of hundreds to thousands of microservices running on countless individual servers and that have to be called within a matter of microseconds to give the illusion of a monolithic application, building fully connected, high bi-section bandwidth Clos networks is a must. …

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