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Very few people actually know how to provision and manage a lossless Ethernet fabric and I’d wager someone who had literally never touched infiniband would have
by foobiekr 3y ago
Very few people actually know how to provision and manage a lossless Ethernet fabric and I’d wager someone who had literally never touched infiniband would have an easier time accomplishing it from zero with IB than with Ethernet on real vendor gear.
Ethernet has so, so many gotchas. Maybe if it was a layer 3 only network it would work. Maybe.
- alfalfasprout 3y agoI'm guessing it's RDMA over ethernet too which often has a lot of gotchas depending on the exact hardware being used.
- epistasis 3y agoIronically enough, since NVIDIA bought Mellanox, it's likely that the best documented route to get ROCE v2 going is with switches purchased from NVIDIA... Edit: and yes, it's RDMA over ethernet https://docs.habana.ai/en/latest/Gaudi_Overview/Gaudi_Architecture.html https://docs.habana.ai/en/latest/Gaudi_Overview/Gaudi_Archit...