AI networking startups race to replace Nvidia's NVLink
Intel spin-off Cornelis and newcomer Delos Data pitch open alternatives for scaling AI beyond the rack..
Intel spin-off Cornelis and newcomer Delos Data pitch open alternatives for scaling AI beyond the rack.
The short version
- At the AI Infra Summit this week, Delos Data and Cornelis Networks officially entered the scale up networking race. Scale-up fabrics, like NVLink, are what have allowed Nvidia to make eight, 72, and now 576 GPUs behave as one enormous AI accelerator.
- To catch up, rivals like AMD have embraced emerging protocols like Ultra Accelerator Link .
- Today, these protocols are largely being tunneled over standard Ethernet switches.
What happened
At AI Infra on Monday, HPC-centric networking vendor Cornelis introduced the Active Compute Fabric (ACF), which seeks to establish an open architecture for scale up and scale out networking that integrates programmable compute into the fabric. For NNN readers, the useful bit is how ai networking startups race to replace nvidia's nvlink changes the immediate story in this beat.
Why it matters
The Register — Networks says ai networking startups race to replace nvidia's nvlink is the central development readers should understand.
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