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UEC Doesn’t Want To Kill InfiniBand, But It Wants Ethernet To Beat It
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
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
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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What If Omni-Path Morphs Into The Best Ultra Ethernet?
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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Ethernet Consortium Shoots For 1 Million Node Clusters That Beat InfiniBand
Here we go again. Some big hyperscalers and cloud builders and their ASIC and switch suppliers are unhappy about Ethernet, and rather than wait for the IEEE to address issues, they are taking matters in their own hands to create what will ultimately become an IEEE standard that moves Ethernet forward in a direction and speed of their choosing. …