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Renaissance Technologies (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:53:19 Ben Gilbert Well, there's not much to it other than a huge amount of InfiniBand was used by high-frequency trading firms, and I don't know for sure, but I kind of think Mellanox built their business on Quant Finance.
Holiday Special 2023 (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 55:54 David Rosenthal So, NVIDIA is one of their major partners, and Crusoe's data centers are filled with all the latest Hopper GPUs linked up with InfiniBand and optimized for the best
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang · Acquired
- ▶ 39:33 Ben Gilbert InfiniBand.
- ▶ 39:37 Ben Gilbert You totally saw that InfiniBand would be way more useful way sooner than anyone else realized.
- ▶ 44:34 Ben Gilbert To illustrate, they already have several customers already running large-scale generative AI workloads on clusters of NVIDIA H-H-H-GPUs, which are interconnected with 3200 gigabit InfiniBand and leveraging Crusoe's network-attached block…
Nvidia Part III: The Dawn of the AI Era (2022-2023) (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 24:03 David Rosenthal Just as one example, Crusoe was one of the first clouds to deploy the 3200 gigabit InfiniBand, which we will be talking about a lot more later on the episode.
- ▶ 24:28 Ben Gilbert InfiniBand is wild, and it's just one example of how NVIDIA has built such a dominant position in AI that we'll talk about later in this episode.
- ▶ 1:01:41 David Rosenthal Mellanox's primary product was something called InfiniBand.
- ▶ 1:01:51 Ben Gilbert And actually, InfiniBand was an open-source standard, or managed by a consortium.
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 1:02:22 David Rosenthal Yeah, so you said, wait, what is InfiniBand?
- ▶ 1:05:35 Ben Gilbert So now we make a box, and it's a fully integrated NVIDIA solution with our GPUs, our CPUs, our NV link between them, our InfiniBand to network it to other boxes, and, you know, welcome to the show.
- ▶ 2:45:43 Ben Gilbert And even if you did all that, you'd need to create server-to-server and rack-to-rack networking capabilities as good as Mellanox, who was the best on the market, with InfiniBand that NVIDIA now fully owns and controls, which basically…
Costco (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:40:26 Ben Gilbert Crusoe was also among the first to deploy cutting edge networking fabrics like InfiniBand, which accelerates performance of large AI training clusters dramatically.