Guide
InfiniBand vs Ethernet: Wiring the AI Supercomputer
The network fabric of a training cluster isn't plumbing — it's the critical path. Choose wrong, and thousands of GPUs spend more time waiting than working.
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Networks & Fabric
Ten thousand GPUs are only as fast as the wires between them. InfiniBand, Ethernet and the fabric of the AI supercomputer.
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- Guide
Managed Switches for the AI Data Center: A Complete Guide
Selecting the right switching fabric is one of the most consequential calls in any data-center build. Get it right and the network keeps pace with your GPU clusters. Get it wrong and a billion-dollar training run waits on a bottleneck measured in microseconds.
- Explainer
Carrier-Neutral, Interconnection, and the AI Edge
Training gets the campuses. Inference needs the meet-me room — what carrier neutrality actually buys when models graduate to production.
