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Copper Wires Have Already Failed Clustered AI Systems

September 13, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan 7

It has become a well known fact these days that the switches that are used to interconnect distributed systems are not the most expensive part of that network, but rather it is the optical transceivers and fiber optic cables that comprise the bulk of the cost. …

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The Future Of AI Training Demands Optical Interconnects

May 15, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 4

Artificial intelligence has taken the datacenter by storm, and it is forcing companies to rethink the balance between compute, storage, and networking. …

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Inside HPE’s Gen-Z Switch Fabric

September 9, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

Even before it launched a $1.3 billion acquisition of Cray back in May, Hewlett Packard Enterprise has had exascale aspirations. …

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Datacenters To Get A High Fiber Bandwidth Diet

March 18, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Might doesn’t make right, but it sure does help. The hyperscalers, cloud builders, and co-location datacenters of the world that operate at massive scale have an interconnectivity problem, and it has nothing to do with the feeds and speeds of a switch. …

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