AI factories rely on more than just compute fabrics. While the East-West network connecting the GPUs is critical to AI application performance, the storage fabric—connecting high-speed storage arrays—is equally important. Storage performance plays a key role across several stages of the AI lifecycle, including training checkpointing, inference techniques such as retrieval-augmented generation…
]]>NVIDIA Spectrum-X is swiftly gaining traction as the leading networking platform tailored for AI in hyperscale cloud infrastructures. Spectrum-X networking technologies help enterprise customers accelerate generative AI workloads. NVIDIA announced significant OEM adoption of the platform in a November 2023 press release, along with an update on the NVIDIA Israel-1 Supercomputer powered by Spectrum…
]]>A common technological misconception is that performance and complexity are directly linked. That is, the highest-performance implementation is also the most challenging to implement and manage. When considering data center networking, however, this is not the case. InfiniBand is a protocol that sounds daunting and exotic in comparison to Ethernet, but because it is built from the ground up…
]]>What do Ethernet switches, sports cars, household appliances, and toilet paper have in common? If you read this blog’s title and have lived through the past year and a half, you probably know the answer. These are all products whose availability has been impacted by the materials shortages due to the global pandemic. In some instances, the supply issues are more of an inconvenience–waiting a…
]]>Picture this: you’re having dinner at an upscale restaurant. You look at the menu and decide that you’re in the mood for a filet. You order the steak medium rare. The waiter brings it out, it’s plated beautifully, and the service is great. Yet you hear a little voice in the back of your head. “I could have prepared this steak in my own kitchen exactly to my definition of medium rare!
]]>When you see a browser ad for a new restaurant, or the perfect gift for that hard-to-please family member, you probably aren’t thinking about the infrastructure used to deliver that ad. However, that infrastructure is what allows advertising companies like Criteo to provide these insights. The NVIDIA networking portfolio is essential to Criteo technology stack. Criteo is an online advertising…
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