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Ethernet Consortium Shoots For 1 Million Node Clusters That Beat InfiniBand (www.nextplatform.com)
submitted 1 year ago by VulcanSphere@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Here we go again. Some big hyperscalers and cloud builders and their ASIC and switch suppliers are unhappy about Ethernet, and rather than wait...

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[–] enu@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Impressive that Nvidia has found a price point for Infiniband that’s so bad that it’s actually more cost effective for companies to create an open standard to ditch them. The initiative sounds really interesting and I’m curious to see what comes out of it. The article mentions latency several times, but they really need to beat Infiniband’s deterministic latency. That’s going to be a challenge to do, especially while carrying all Ethernet’s baggage.