Report: AI Back-End Networks Continue Shift to Ethernet

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – Dec. 5, 2025 – According to a recently published report from industry analyst firm Dell’Oro Group, Ethernet accounted for more than two-thirds of data center switch sales in AI back-end networks both during the quarter and across the first three quarters of the year — up from less than half in […]

Re-Engineering Ethernet for AI Fabric

[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE]   For years, InfiniBand has been the go-to networking technology for high-performance computing (HPC) and AI workloads due to its low latency and lossless transport. But as AI clusters grow to thousands of GPUs and demand open, scalable infrastructure, the industry is shifting. Leading AI infrastructure providers are increasingly moving ….

Re-Engineering Ethernet for AI Fabric

Ethernet wasn’t built with AI in mind. While cost-effective and ubiquitous, its best-effort, packet-based nature creates challenges in AI clusters… But fabric-scheduled Ethernet transforms Ethernet into a predictable, lossless, scalable fabric – ideal for AI. It uses cell spraying and virtual output queuing ….

Seeking Ethernet Alternative to InfiniBand?  Start with Performance!

[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE]  When it comes to AI and HPC workloads, networking is critical. While this is well known already, the impact your networking fabric performance has on parameters like job completion time can ….

Saudi Arabia Unveils AI Deals with NVIDIA, AMD, Cisco, AWS

Saudi Arabia announced AI development deals with four leading U.S. technology firms, chip companies NVIDIA and AMD, networking company Cisco and cloud platform Amazon Web Services. The partnerships were formed through the kingdom’s ….

Oracle Announces Zettascale Cloud Supercluster with 131,000 Blackwells

Oracle today announced what it said is the first zettascale cloud HPC cluster, powered by Nvidia’s forthcoming Blackwell GPUs, scheduled for shipment in the first half of 2025. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure will be available ….

TACC’s ‘Vista’ AI Supercomputer in Production for Open Science Community

The Texas Advanced Computing Center today announced that Vista, a new AI-centric system, is in full production for the open science community. Funded by the National Science Foundation, Vista marks a departure from the x86-based architecture of ….

HPE-Nvidia 6 AI Exaflops Supercomputer to Be Installed at AIST Research Organization in Japan

Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) research organization will integrate thousands of Nvidia H200 Tensor Core GPUs into its HPE-Cray ….

Ohio Supercomputer Center Announces ‘Cardinal’ HPC Cluster, Doubles AI Processing

The Ohio Supercomputer Center today announced “Cardinal,” an HPC cluster (test node is pictured here) that the center said doubles its AI processing capacity. The system is scheduled to be launched in the second half of this year. A collaboration including Intel, Dell Technologies, Nvidia….

Flare Gas Data Center Company Crusoe Picks HPE for Green GenAI

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced its HPE Cray supercomputers were selected by Crusoe, a builder of modular data centers, to power new cloud services designed to drive sustainable computing for generative AI and other compute-intensive workloads. Crusoe will leverage custom HPE Cray XD supercomputers to train and tune large-scale AI models….