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AMD uses Infinity Fabric, which is their NVLink. They announced today how they're opening up Infinity Fabric to select partners, including Broadcom. Meaning par
by dhruvdh 3y ago
AMD uses Infinity Fabric, which is their NVLink. They announced today how they're opening up Infinity Fabric to select partners, including Broadcom. Meaning partners can now develop their own switches.
Also, as AMD and HPE power some of the most performant supercomputers in the world, they wouldn't have won those contracts if their networking was subpar. Those use slingshot.
You may also be interested in reading about https://ultraethernet.org/ https://ultraethernet.org/ .
- saberience 3y agoNVLink is used for linking chips together, InfiniBand is used for linking systems together, i.e. into big HPC clusters. Infinity Fabric is used for inter chip communication, it's not a replacement for Infiniband and cannot be used to create clusters of machines.