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. …
A rising tide may lift all boats, and that is a good thing these days with any company that has an AI oar in the water. …
Richard Solomon has heard the rumblings over the years. As vice president of PCI-SIG, the organization that controls the development of the PCI-Express specification, he has listened to questions about how long it takes the group to bring the latest spec to the industry. …
In those heady months following OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, much of the IT industry’s focus was on huge and expensive cloud infrastructures running on powerful GPU clusters to train the large language models that underpin the chatbots and other generative AI workloads. …
The generative AI revolution is making strange bedfellows, as revolutions and emerging monopolies that capitalize on them, often do. …
Aside from all of the buzz that optics get in datacenter networking, copper is still king of the short haul. …
For the past five years, since Nvidia acquired InfiniBand and Ethernet switch and network interface card supplier Mellanox, people have been wondering what the split is between compute and networking in the Nvidia datacenter business that has exploded in growth and now represents most of revenue for each quarter. …
Two Gordons loom large in the history of computing, and both made observations about the interplay of economics and technology and how they foster progress, which have both been enshrined as laws. …
If you look at the financial results for Cisco Systems over more than a decade, it is hard to tell one year from the other. …
Just about everybody, including Nvidia, thinks that in the long run, most people running most AI training and inference workloads at any appreciable scale – hundreds to millions of datacenter devices – will want a cheaper alternative for networking AI accelerators than InfiniBand. …
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