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Attacking Interconnects And Networks Across All Scales

November 6, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

There are two competing forces in IT, and they are at play during the GenAI era as much as they have ever been during prior eras in the datacenter. …

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Eviden Mainstreams BXI Interconnect Thanks To Ultra Ethernet And AI Boom

December 10, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan 7

Supercomputer interconnects have not been this exciting in a long time, but the confluence of forces have come together to put high speed, low latency networks at the forefront of systems architecture. …

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UEC Doesn’t Want To Kill InfiniBand, But It Wants Ethernet To Beat It

November 14, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

Welcome to the second part in our series of chats with J Metz, chair of the Ultra Ethernet Consortium. …

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The Collaboration That Will Drive Ethernet Into The HPC And AI Future

November 12, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

Any time you can get a lot of companies with very technically adept and strongly opinionated people to work together on a problem, or a set of problems, then you know for a fact that there is a real problem. …

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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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Arista Banks On The AI Network Double Whammy

August 21, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

Current AI training and some AI inference clusters have two networks. …

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What If Omni-Path Morphs Into The Best Ultra Ethernet?

June 26, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan 12

UPDATED: Nvidia is a member of the Ultra Ethernet Consortium.

The jury is still out on a lot of things about this exploding AI market and the re-convergence that it will have with traditional HPC systems for running simulations and models. …

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