Open Ethernet vs. InfiniBand for AI Fabrics: What’s Different, Why Ethernet Is Surging, and Where Both Still Hurt

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AI clusters live or die by their network. When you stitch together thousands of GPUs, the fabric becomes a first-class accelerator: it must deliver brutal bandwidth, ultra-low tail latency, clean congestion control, and predictable job completion times. For years, InfiniBand (IB) owned that story. Today, “Open Ethernet” fabrics—multi-vendor Ethernet with open software (e.g., SONiC) and […]

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Network Architecture Design for AI Workloads

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) workloads are exerting escalating pressures on network infrastructure. As models increase in complexity, efficient data transmission, minimal latency, and high bandwidth are crucial for seamless operations. The architecture of AI networks must be meticulously crafted to enhance performance in both training and inference tasks. This article examines InfiniBand and Open Ethernet topologies, […]

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