… However, Cisco is looking at this through its historically network-focused lens. “The other option – and this is borrowing from the paradigms that we have learned from cloud computing – is you can connect a whole bunch of these quantum computers together through a quantum network and make all of th… …
… This is how you can lash together an AI supercomputer with traditional RoCE Ethernet using 800 Gb/sec ports on the 51.2 Tb/sec switches, which have 64 ports each: Each pod has 64 GPUs or XPUs, each with an 800 Gb/sec network interface. …
… Take a gander: The torus topology has multiple dimensions, as the name suggests, and have been popular in some supercomputer architectures – IBM’s BlueGene massively parallel machines used a 3D torus and the “K” and “Fugaku” supercomputers built by Fujitsu have a 6D “Tofu” interconnect, just to giv… …
… The Networking group, which includes HPE’s miniscule datacenter networking business, the Aruba business, and the Juniper business all put together, had sales of $2.69 billion, up by a factor of 2.5X year on year. …
… This was in an era when linking together a few thousand CPU nodes was a supercomputer. …
… With each announcement, executives wanted to show a fully integrated stack of Cisco networking, networking, and security for datacenters and cloud environments that can draw in tools from tech partners, drive faster deployment and implementation through validated designs and pre-configured designs,… …
… I am not sure how much of the overall networking business is Ethernet stuff, InfiniBand stuff, and NVSwitch stuff – I have been modeling InfiniBand versus Ethernet since the early days of Mellanox – but Nvidia has stopped talking specifically about how this networking business is carved up. …
… The infrastructure layer varies across providers, from raw GPU access with minimal support to specialized tooling for networking, reliability, and orchestration. …
… Hyperscalers and cloud builders, not to mention HPC centers, do not like when networking represents more than 10 percent of the cost of a distributed computing system, and they like it even less when they see the numbers drifting up towards 30 percent when you take into account the scale up network… …
… You will have 128 compute engines per rack, and need four racks for the compute, but it will take eight racks of networking. …