Ethernet, every mention
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tap a year for its mentions
every year anyone David Rosenthal 3Ben Gilbert 3Jensen Huang 2
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Ethernet comes up
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang · Acquired
- ▶ 41:21 Jensen Huang And so, it's the inverse of hyperscale almost, and the way that you design a hyperscale computer with, with off-the-shelf commodity Ethernet, which is just fine for Hadoop, it's just fine for search queries, it's just fine for all of those…
- ▶ 41:38 Jensen Huang And so, now that observation says that the type of networking you want to do is not exactly Ethernet, and the way that we do networking for supercomputing is really quite ideal.
Nvidia Part III: The Dawn of the AI Era (2022-2023) (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:01:57 Ben Gilbert There were a bunch of players in it, but the traditional wisdom was, while InfiniBand is way faster, way higher bandwidth, a much more efficient way to transfer data around a data center, at the end of the day, Ethernet is the lowest…
- ▶ 1:02:12 Ben Gilbert And so, everyone had to implement Ethernet anyway, and so most companies actually exited the market, and Mellanox was kind of the only InfiniBand spec provider left.
- ▶ 1:02:24 David Rosenthal It is a competing standard to Ethernet.
- ▶ 1:02:33 David Rosenthal And back in 2020, everybody was like, Ethernet's fine.
- ▶ 1:02:40 David Rosenthal Ethernet between racks in a data center.
- ▶ 1:03:05 Ben Gilbert People thought, oh, sure, for supercomputers, for these academic purposes, but what the enterprise market needs in my shared cloud computing data center is Ethernet, and that's fine, and most workloads are gonna happen right there on one…