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With Aquila, Google Abandons Ethernet To Outdo InfiniBand

April 12, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

Frustrated by the limitations of Ethernet, Google has taken the best ideas from InfiniBand and Cray’s “Aries” interconnect and created a new distributed switching architecture called Aquila and a new GNet protocol stack that delivers the kind of consistent and low latency that the search engine giant has been seeking for decades. …

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In Modern Datacenters, The Latency Tail Wags The Network Dog

March 27, 2018 Kevin Deierling 4

The expression, the tail wags the dog, is used when a seemingly unimportant factor or infrequent event actually dominates the situation. …

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