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In this video from SC12, Professor Kei Hiraki from the University of Tokyo discusses the historical development of accelerator technology that has culminated in the new Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor.
[SPONSORED GUEST CONTENT] Scheduled Ethernet is emerging as a viable alternative to InfiniBand for AI networking. Why? Because of its ability to offer comparable performance but with greater flexibility and cost-effectiveness.
Today, every high-performance computing (HPC) workload running globally faces the same crippling issue: Congestion in the network.
Congestion can delay workload completion times for crucial scientific and enterprise workloads, making HPC systems unpredictable and leaving high-cost cluster resources waiting for delayed data to arrive. Despite various brute-force attempts to resolve the congestion issue, the problem has persisted. Until now.
In this paper, Matthew Williams, CTO at Rockport Networks, explains how recent innovations in networking technologies have led to a new network architecture that targets the root causes of HPC network congestion, specifically:
– Why today’s network architectures are not a sustainable approach to HPC workloads
– How HPC workload congestion and latency issues are directly tied to the network architecture
– Why a direct interconnect network architecture minimizes congestion and tail latency
